Plate LIV · Mexico
Vol. VIII (1952) · full-page plate
(fot. Enc. Catt.)
(fot. Enc. Catt.)
(da C. A. Burland, Art and life in ancient Mexico, Oxford 1948, fig. 23)
(fot. Biblioteca Vaticana)
Above left: THE GOD OF RAIN (probably). Calcite sculpture - Rome, Museo Preistorico Etnografico L. Pigorini. Above centre: CEREMONIAL AXE of diorite of the Totonacs - Rome, Museo Preistorico Etnografico L. Pigorini. Above right: THE GOD QUETZALCOATL. Carved jade block - London, British Museum. Below: ILLUSTRATED MEXICAN CODEX (pre-Columbian) - Biblioteca Vaticana, cod. Borg. I, ff. 9 and 10.