Image: 3807
File date: 2002-06-22
Caption: Veracruz Figure
Description: Veracruz. clay, chapote. Standing figure holding a skull in left hand and curved knife in right. His head is pierced either for the insertion of feathers of attachment of headdress. He may be wearing the skin of a victim. The penis is flattened as the result of self-sacrifice. Compare with number 2859. height 61 cm.
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Photograph by Justin Kerr
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