I took far too many photos of pre-Hispanic sculpture. A treasure trove of styles from Mayans, Aztecs, Olmecs, Mixtecs and several groups I’d never heard of.
There’s a gory fascination with the sacrificial knives, the inlaid skulls, the model skull racks and the gods wearing flayed skin.
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- A skull rack from the Templo Mayor
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- A burial cache
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- Architectural battlements
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- Sacrificial knives
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- A man with his liver hanging out
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- An eagle warrior
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- An endless variety of masks
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- A shell waistcoat
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- A Mayan chacmool from Chichen Itza
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- Terracotta figures
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- Obsidian
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- The burial mask and jewellery of Pakal I of Palenque
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- An Olmec head (about 2m high)
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- A sun stone
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- An ex-voto, commemorating a rail accident
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- A figure from Puebla
