Sculpture, Museo Nacional de Antropologia, Mexico City, Mexico
Altar of Nocturnal Animals, a cube shaped altar with bas-reliefs on each side of a god of the underworld, including moth, owl, scorpion and spider, each with the paper rosette of gods of death, basalt, Mexica, Aztec, 1325-1521 AD, in the Museo Nacional de Antropologia, or National Museum of Anthropology, opened 1964, in Chapultepec Park, Mexico City, Mexico. Picture by Manuel Cohen
Picture No
50384225
Media ID
50384225
Size
8268px x 5731px
(16.0MB)
Credit
Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Photograh by Manuel Cohen
Date
2025
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