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Pre-Columbian
Altar 5
c. 900-400 BCE, Parque-Museo de La Venta, Villahermosa

 

Pre-Columbian
Altar of the Sacred Tree
c. 1300, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

   

Pre-Columbian
Altar of the Warriors
c. 1510, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

     

Pre-Columbian
Altar with the Date 10 Rabbit
c. 1325-1521, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Anthropomorphic Figure
c. 1000-400 BCE, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Anthropomorphic Head (Monument M)
500-300 BCE, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Anthropomorphic Jaguar Figure
c. 600-300 BCE, Museo Regional de Chiapas, Tuxtla Gutiérrez

 

Pre-Columbian
Anthropomorphic Sculpture
c. 1350-1521, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Anthropomorphic Sculpture (Macehualli)
c. 1500, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Axe with Footprint
c. 1200-900 BCE, Centro INAH Veracruz

 

Pre-Columbian
Baby Holding a Ball
c. 1200-800 BCE, de Young Museum, San Francisco

 

Pre-Columbian
Ballplayer Relief
c. 1000-400 BCE, Museo Regional de Chiapas, Tuxtla Gutiérrez

 

Pre-Columbian
The Basin of Mexico

 

Pre-Columbian
Bells from a Necklace
c. 1469, Museo del Templo Mayor, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Bird-Shaped Effigy Vessel
c. 1200-600 BCE, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Bottle with Carved Relief
c. 1200-600 BCE, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Boturini Codex (Tira de la Peregrinación)
c. 1530-1541, Biblioteca Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Bowl with a Celestial Being
c. 1200-900 BCE, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

 

Pre-Columbian
Bowl with Incised Iguanas
c. 1000-600 BCE, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

 

Pre-Columbian
Box with Elaborate Carving (Monument C)
c. 400-1 BCE, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Brazier in the Form of Chalchiuhtlicue
c. 1500, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Bust of a Man
c. 1200-900 BCE, Centro INAH Veracruz

 

Pre-Columbian
Cactus
c. 1450-1500, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Canoe-Shaped Pectoral
c. 1000-400 BCE, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Celt with Carved Human Profile
c. 900-400 BCE, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Celt with Deity
c. 1000-300 BCE, Cleveland Museum of Art

 

Pre-Columbian
Celt with Incised Profile of the Maize God and Hand Motif
c. 1000-400 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Pre-Columbian
Celt with Incised Striding Man
c. 900-500 BCE, Dallas Museum of Art

 

Pre-Columbian
Censer
c. 1500, Dirección de Salvamento Arqueológico, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Censer
c. 1400-1521, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Censer
c. 1325-1521, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Censer with Seated King
c. 500-900, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Pre-Columbian
Ceremonial Shield (Chimalli)
c. 1500-1521, Museo Nacional de Historia, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Chalchiuhtlicue
c. 1500, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

   

Pre-Columbian
Chalchiuhtlicue
c. 1325-1521, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris

 

Pre-Columbian
Coatlicue
c. 1500, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

   

Pre-Columbian
Codex Fehéváry-Mayer
before 1521, Liverpool Museum

 

Pre-Columbian
Codex Mendoza
c. 1542, Bodleian Library, Oxford

     

Pre-Columbian
Colossal Head (Monument 89)
c. 1400-1000 BCE, Museo Comunitario de Tenochtitlán

 

Pre-Columbian
Colossal Head (Monument Q)
c. 1000-800 BCE, Museo Regional Tuxteco, Santiago Tuxtla

 

Pre-Columbian
Colossal Head 4
c. 1200-900 BCE, Museo de Antropología de Xalapa

 

Pre-Columbian
Colossal Head 5
c. 1200-900 BCE, Museo de Antropología de Xalapa

     

Pre-Columbian
Commemorative Mask of a Ruler
c. 1200-600 BCE, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

 

Pre-Columbian
Composite Creature (Monument 1)
c. 300 BCE, Museo Regional de Chiapas, Tuxtla Gutiérrez

 

Pre-Columbian
Contortionist
c. 1200-600 BCE, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Coronation Stone of Moctezuma II
1503, Art Institute of Chicago

   

Pre-Columbian
Crescent Nose Ornament
c. 1-700, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Pre-Columbian
Cuauhxicalli Eagle
c. 1502, Museo del Templo Mayor, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Cuauhxicalli of Motecuhzoma Ilhuicamina
c. 1440-1469, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Cup with Images of a Warrior
c. 1500, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Dedication Stone from the Templo Mayor
1487, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Deified Warrior
c. 1500, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Deified Warrior
c. 1500, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Deified Warrior
c. 1500, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Deified Warrior
c. 1500, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Deified Warrior
c. 1500, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Eagle Head Labret
before 1521, Museo Civico d'Arte Antica, Turin

 

Pre-Columbian
Eagle Man
c. 1440-1469, Museo del Templo Mayor, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Ear-Plug with Image of the God of Wind
c. 800-1521, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Ear-Spools
c. 1460-1521, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Effigy Head Brazier
c. 500-200 BCE, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

 

Pre-Columbian
Ehecatl-Quetzalcoatl
c. 1500, Museo de Antropología e Historia del Estado de México, Toluca

 

Pre-Columbian
Fan
grip c. 1500, feathers 1999, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Feather Fan
c. 1500-1541, Museum für Völkerkunde Wien, Vienna

 

Pre-Columbian
Feathered Serpent with the Date 1 Reed
c. 1519, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Female Figure with Elaborate Hair and Headdress
c. 1200-900 BCE, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

 

Pre-Columbian
Female Figure with Mirror
c. 1200-600 BCE, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Figural Jar with Lid
c. 300-500, Museo Regional de Chiapas, Tuxtla Gutiérrez

 

Pre-Columbian
Fish Effigy Vessel
c. 1200-600 BCE, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Florentine Codex
c. 1540-1585

 

Pre-Columbian
Flutes
c. 1486-1520, Museo del Templo Mayor, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Four-Cornered Hat
c. 600-800, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

 

Pre-Columbian
Fragmentary Man’s Tunic
c. 600-850, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

 

Pre-Columbian
Fragments of a Casket
c. 1450-1500, British Museum, London

     

Pre-Columbian
Funerary Urn with Lid
c. 1469, Museo del Templo Mayor, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Gourd-Shaped Bowl (Tecomate)
c. 1000-800 BCE, Centro INAH Veracruz

 

Pre-Columbian
Gourd-Shaped Bowl (Tecomate)
c. 1200-600 BCE, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Grasshopper
c. 1500, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Group of Standing Figures and Celts (Offering 4)
c. 900-400 BCE, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Guardian Figure Stela
c. 400-800, Museo de Metales Preciosos Precolombinos, La Paz

 

Pre-Columbian
Half-Kneeling Figure (Monument 34)
c. 1400-1000 BCE, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Head
c. 900-400 BCE, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

 

Pre-Columbian
Head of a Feathered Serpent from the Palace of Moctezuma II
c. 1507, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Head of a Supernatural Being (Monument 1)
c. 1200-900 BCE, Museo de Antropología de Xalapa

 

Pre-Columbian
Head with Lip Plug
c. 1250-1521, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Hourglass-Shaped Goblet
c. 1500, Dirección de Salvamento Arqueológico, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Hourglass-Shaped Goblet
c. 1500, Dirección de Salvamento Arqueológico, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Huehueteotl
c. 1500, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Huitzilopochtli
c. 1500, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris

 

Pre-Columbian
Incised Bottle
c. 1200-600 BCE, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Incised Bottle
c. 1200-600 BCE, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Incised Bowl
c. 1200-900 BCE, Indiana University Museum of Art, Bloomington

 

Pre-Columbian
Incised Vessel with Jaguar Motifs
c. 1200-600 BCE, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Invocation of a Royal Ancestor (Lintel 25)
c. 725, British Museum, London

 

Pre-Columbian
Jar
c. 1200-800 BCE, Bowers Museum, Santa Ana

 

Pre-Columbian
Jug
c. 1200-1400, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem

 

Pre-Columbian
Jug with Human Figure and Supernatural Bird
c. 1200-1400, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem

 

Pre-Columbian
Kneeling Figure
c. 1200-600 BCE, Cleveland Museum of Art

 

Pre-Columbian
Kunz Axe (Votive Axe)
c. 1000-400 BCE, American Museum of Natural History, New York

 

Pre-Columbian
Lip-Plug in the Shape of a Bird
c. 1400-1521, Museum für Völkerkunde Wien, Vienna

 

Pre-Columbian
Man Carrying a Cacao Pod
c. 1200-1521, Brooklyn Museum

 

Pre-Columbian
Man’s Tunic
c. 200-600, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

 

Pre-Columbian
Man’s Tunic
c. 600-850, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

 

Pre-Columbian
Man’s Tunic
c. 500-700, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

 

Pre-Columbian
Man’s Tunic
c. 1350-1534, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

 

Pre-Columbian
Man’s Tunic
c. 1470-1532, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

 

Pre-Columbian
Man’s Tunic
c. 1470-1532, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

 

Pre-Columbian
Mantle
c. 200 BCE - 200 CE, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

 

Pre-Columbian
Mantle
c. 200 BCE - 200 CE, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

 

Pre-Columbian
Mantle Fragment
c. 300-100 BCE, private collection

 

Pre-Columbian
Mask
c. 1350-1521, Museo Nazionale Preistorico ed Etnografico, Rome

 

Pre-Columbian
Mask
c. 1400-1521, British Museum, London

 

Pre-Columbian
Mask
c. 900-400 BCE, Museo de Antropología de Xalapa

 

Pre-Columbian
Mask
c. 900-400 BCE, Museo de Antropología de Xalapa

 

Pre-Columbian
Mask
c. 900-600 BCE, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

 

Pre-Columbian
Mask
c. 1000-600 BCE, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

 

Pre-Columbian
Mask
c. 1000-600 BCE, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Mask from a Funerary Bundle
c. 200-400, Museo Antropológico del Banco Central, Guayaquil

 

Pre-Columbian
Mask of a Deity with Serpentine Motifs
c. 300-100 BCE, Brooklyn Museum

 

Pre-Columbian
Mask with Scarification Pattern
c. 200-400, Museo Antropológico del Banco Central, Guayaquil

 

Pre-Columbian
Model of a Trophy Head
c. 200-400, Museo Antropológico del Banco Central, Quito

 

Pre-Columbian
Monument 12
c. 1200-900 BCE, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Monument 13
c. 1000-400 BCE, Parque-Museo de La Venta, Villahermosa

 

Pre-Columbian
Monument 2 (El Bebé)
c. 1000-800 BCE, Centro INAH Veracruz

   

Pre-Columbian
Monumental Head of a Supernatural Being
c. 900-400 BCE, Museo Regional de Antropología, Villahermosa

 

Pre-Columbian
Nose Ornament
c. 1480, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Pair of Earflares
c. 900-500 BCE, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Pectoral
c. 900-500 BCE, Instituto de Cultura de Tabasco, Villahermosa

 

Pre-Columbian
Pectoral
c. 300-1000, Museo del Oro del Banco de la República, Bogotá

 

Pre-Columbian
Pectoral in the form of a Face
c. 1000-400 BCE, Museo Regional de Chiapas, Tuxtla Gutiérrez

 

Pre-Columbian
Pectoral with Seated Chieftan and Raptorial Birds
c. 1200-1600, Museo del Oro del Banco de la República, Bogotá

 

Pre-Columbian
Pendant
c. 1200-1521, British Museum, London

 

Pre-Columbian
Pendant
c. 1200-1521, British Museum, London

 

Pre-Columbian
Pendant depicting Masked Priestly Figure
c. 1200-1600, Museo del Oro del Banco de la República, Bogotá

 

Pre-Columbian
Pendant with Two Men Wearing Bird Masks
c. 600-400 BCE, Museo Regional de Chiapas, Tuxtla Gutiérrez

 

Pre-Columbian
Personage of Atlihuayan
c. 1200-900 BCE, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

   

Pre-Columbian
Plaque with Carved Human Profile
c. 800 BCE, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Plaque with Figural Relief
c. 700, Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology, Cambridge

 

Pre-Columbian
Plate with Cut Shells
c. 1000-600 BCE, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Plate with Two Fish
c. 1000-600 BCE, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Plumed Diadem with Mask and Pendants
c. 1300-1500, Museo del Oro del Banco de la República, Bogotá

 

Pre-Columbian
Polychrome Jar
c. 1500, British Museum, London

 

Pre-Columbian
Polychrome Tripod Plate
c. 1500, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Pot
c. 1507, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Priestly Ruler (Stela 11)
c. 250 BCE - 100 CE, Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología, Guatemala City

   

Pre-Columbian
Pulque Jug
c. 1450-1500, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Quetzalcoatl
c. 1350-1521, British Museum, London

   

Pre-Columbian
Rattlesnake Fragment from the Palace of Moctezuma II
c. 1500, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Relief of Composite Creature (Monument 58)
c. 1400-1000 BCE, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Ritual Vessel representing the Rain God Tlaloc
c. 1440-1469, Museo del Templo Mayor, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Roller Seal
c. 1200-600 BCE, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Roller Seal
c. 1200-600 BCE, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Royal Mantle
c. 250-550, private collection

 

Pre-Columbian
Royal Tunic
c. 250-550, private collection

 

Pre-Columbian
Rubber Ball
c. 1600-1500 BCE, Centro INAH Veracruz

 

Pre-Columbian
Sacrificial Knife
c. 1400-1521, British Museum, London

   

Pre-Columbian
Scepter
c. 900-400 BCE, Museo Regional de Antropología, Villahermosa

 

Pre-Columbian
Seated Female Figure with Hematite Disc
c. 900-500 BCE, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Seated Figure
c. 900-400 BCE, Cleveland Museum of Art

 

Pre-Columbian
Seated Figure
c. 800-500 BCE, Centro INAH Morelos

 

Pre-Columbian
Seated Figure (Monument 1)
c. 1200-900 BCE, Museo de Antropología de Xalapa

 

Pre-Columbian
Seated Figure holding an Infant
c. 900-500 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Pre-Columbian
Seated Figure with Cape (Monument 77)
c. 900-400 BCE, Parque-Museo de La Venta, Villahermosa

 

Pre-Columbian
Seated Figure with Elaborate Headdress and Cape
c. 900-400 BCE, Dumbarton Oaks Collection, Washington D.C.

 

Pre-Columbian
Seated Figure with Head on Hand
c. 1200-800 BCE, Museo Amparo, Puebla

 

Pre-Columbian
Seated Figure with Knuckledusters (Monument 10)
c. 1200-900 BCE, Museo de Antropología de Xalapa

 

Pre-Columbian
Seated Headless Figure (Monument 16)
c. 800-600 BCE, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Seated Supernatural Being (Monument 11)
c. 900-400 BCE, Museo Regional de Antropología, Villahermosa

 

Pre-Columbian
Shield
c. 1500, Museum für Völkerkunde Wien, Vienna

 

Pre-Columbian
Shield Pendant
c. 1500, Baluarte de Santiago, Veracruz

 

Pre-Columbian
Skull Goblets
c. 1507, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Small Feline (Monument 7)
c. 1200-900 BCE, Museo de Antropología de Xalapa

 

Pre-Columbian
Small Yoke with Carved Face and Incisions
c. 900-600 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Pre-Columbian
Snake Stamp
c. 1500, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Standing Figure
c. 700-500 BCE, Centro INAH Morelos

 

Pre-Columbian
Standing Figure
c. 950-850 BCE, Museo Arqueológico de Sonusco

 

Pre-Columbian
Standing Figure (Monument 19)
c. 1200-1000 BCE, Museo de Antropología de Xalapa

 

Pre-Columbian
Standing Figure with Cupped Hands
c. 550, Museo de Sitio de Teotihuacan

 

Pre-Columbian
Standing Figure with Incised Loincloth
c. 900-400 BCE, Museo Regional de Puebla

 

Pre-Columbian
Standing Male Figure
c. 1300-1500, Musée du Louvre, Paris

     

Pre-Columbian
Stela 1 (Female Figure)
c. 900-400 BCE, Parque-Museo de La Venta, Villahermosa

 

Pre-Columbian
Stela 2 with Portion of Long Count Date 7.16.3.2.13
c. 37 BCE, Museo Regional de Chiapas, Tuxtla Gutiérrez

 

Pre-Columbian
Stela C with Fragmentary Long Count Date
32 BCE, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Stone Disk of the Moon Goddess Coyolxauhqui
c. 1500, Museo del Templo Mayor, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Stone of Tizoc
c. 1481-1486, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Sun Mask (Diadem)
c. 900-1250, Museo Arqueológico Bruning, Lambayeque

 

Pre-Columbian
Templo Mayor
begun 1325, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Teocalli of Sacred Warfare
1507, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

       

Pre-Columbian
Textile Fragment
c. 1000–1470, Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Bethany

 

Pre-Columbian
Textile Fragment
c. 900-1470, Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Bethany

 

Pre-Columbian
Textile with the arms of León
c. 1523-1550, private collection

 

Pre-Columbian
Tezcatlipoca with Smoking Mirrors
c. 1507, Dumbarton Oaks Collection, Washington D.C.

   

Pre-Columbian
Throne (Monument 59)
c. 900-400 BCE, Parque-Museo de La Venta, Villahermosa

   

Pre-Columbian
Tikal Acropolis
c. 200 BCE - 800 CE, Tikal

 

Pre-Columbian
Tlaloc Mosaic Mask
c. 1350-1521, British Museum, London

 

Pre-Columbian
Tlaltecuhtli Monolith
before 1521, Museo del Templo Mayor, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Tlazolteotl
c. 1300-1521, Dumbarton Oaks Collection, Washington D.C.

 

Pre-Columbian
Toad with an Image of Chalchihuitl
c. 1500, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

   

Pre-Columbian
Tripod Plate
c. 1325-1521, British Museum, London

 

Pre-Columbian
Tripod Plate
c. 1325-1521, British Museum, London

 

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