The photographs in this presentation are from the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City. They represent a wide spectrum of the ancient cultures of Mexico. The following is a list by culture.

AZTEC (MEXICA)

Slab with a bas-relief carving

Sunstone

Sculpture of the deity Coatlicue

Stone of Tízoc (detail)

Head of the deity Coyolxauhqui

Dedication slab

Head of a warrior of the order of the eagles

Statute of Xiuhtecuhtli

Statue of Coatlicue

Sculpture of kneeling Cihuateteo

Sculpture of Xochipilli

Serpent's head

Sculpture of a coiled rattlesnake

Sculpture of the wind deity

Sculpture of a squash

Obsidian vessel carved in the shape of a monkey

Image of a standing woman

Tripod plate

Polychrome terracota plaque with molded and apliquéd sculpture of a human face

Stone box with representations of corn cobs

Recumbent stone sculpture

Effigy vessel of an opposum

Sculpture of a standing old man

Torso and head of a male

Sculpture of a standing warrior

Model of a pyramid temple

Fish pendant

Fish pendant

CENTRAL MEXICAN PRE-CLASSIC

Female figurine

Female figurine with flower earflares

Fish-shaped vessel

Vessel-figurine of an acrobat

Seated male figurine dressed as a supernatural beast (front view)

Seated male figurine dressed as a supernatural beast (back view)

Mask with one half representing a face and the other a skull

Representation of a deity

CENTRAL VERACRUZ

"Palma" in the shape of human forearms and hands

Anthropomorphic "hacha"

Female figurine sitting on a coffer-like object

Deity brazier

Figurine of Xipe-Tótec

CHUPÍCUARO CULTURE

Hollow standing figurine

COLIMA CULTURE

Sitting male figurine

Vessel in the shape of a parrot

Vessel in the shape of a dog

HUASTEC

Sculpture of a youth (front)

Sculpture of a youth (back)

Sculpture with a conical headdress

Huilozintla Stela

Female figurine

Tepetzintla monument

Sculpture of a seated female

Skull-shaped necklace beads

Ehecacozcatl in the shape of a flower

Sectioned shell pectoral (Ehecacozcatl)

Wind god pectoral (Ehecacozcatl)

JALISCO CULTURES

Kneeling female figurine

MAYA

Chinkultic disc

Yaxchilan Lintel 26

Reclining figure with plate on abdomen

Architectural finial

Figurine of a ballplayer

Vessel in the shape of an old man emerging from a snail shell

Polychrome vase

Stucco head

Codex-style vessel

Figurine of a man with staff

Carved and etched vessel

Floral "L"-shaped ear ornaments

Domed star ear ornaments

MEXICA (SEE AZTEC)


MEZCALA

Mask

Temple miniature

MIXTEC

Cup with a hummingbird

Vessel with a skeletal figure

Anthropomorphic vessel

NAYAR

Skull cap

NAYARIT CULTURES

Male figurine holding an object

Female figurine holding an object

Female squatting figurine

Representation of a house and its people

Temple model

NORTHERN CULTURES

Whistling vessel

Zoomorph vessel

Polychrome vessel

Anthropomorphic vessel

Polychrome pot

OLMEC

Colossal Head #6, San Lorenzo

Figurine holding an object, possibly a torch or a bundle of vegetation elements

Seated female figurine with a mirror

Anthropomorphic axe

Plaque with 5 bas-relief and etched profiles

Mask

Figure in very dynamic posture

Anthropomorphic celt

Note: "Olmec" is an art historian's term of convenience for a ceremonial complex that manifested itself throughout a large area of Mesoamerica, with a "heartland" along the Gulf Coast in the modern states of Tabasco and Veracruz. Scholars have identified as Olmec many of the artworks herein classified as "Central Mexican Pre-Classic" and "Tlapacoya", among them:

Fish-shaped vessel

Vessel-figurine of an acrobat

Seated male figurine dressed as a supernatural beast (front view)

Seated male figurine dressed as a supernatural beast (back view)

Olmec-style figurine

TARASCAN

Earflare with turquoise inlays

TEOTIHUACAN

Sculpture of a female, possibly a deity

Representation of a deity

Monument from 'La Ventilla'

Disc with a skull in the middle

Mask

Tripod vessel

Reclining figurine vessel

Seated figurine vessel

Bird-shaped vessel

Lidded brazier

Figurine holding two feathered shields

Conch trumpet

Terracotta mask

Figurine of a seated old man

Lidded tripod vessel

Painted conch trumpet

TLAPACOYA

Olmec-style figurine

TOLTEC

Anthropomorphic bench support

Reclining figure with plate on abdomen

Polychrome figurine

Effigy vase

Face emerging from a coyote's maw

Ball-footed brazier

Stone slab with the depiction of a standing jaguar

UNKNOWN

Head of an animal carved from an extinct camelid hipbone

Star-shaped ear ornaments

Ear ornament

WEST MEXICO

Figurine of a dog wearing an anthropomorphic mask

Clay vessel in the form of an opposum

Old woman threshing an ear of corn

Tripod red vase with geometrical and anthropomorphic motifs

Vessel in the shape of a pair of ducks

Effigy of a kneeling man

Pair of arm ornaments

Earflare frontals

Pendant of birds and figures

Necklace made of small anthropomorphic figures

Nose ring in the shape of a bird

Conch trumpet

Conch trumpet

Conch trumpet

Conch trumpet

Conch trumpet

Conch trumpet

XOCHICALCO

Macaw head

Stuccoed and painted vessel

Stelae 1 and 3

ZAPOTEC

Effigy brazier

Building housing a bird

Support in the shape of a human vertebral column

Large feline sculpture

Seated figurine

Urn of a character with a jaguar headdress

Female urn/figurine

Duality mask

Jade mask



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