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.
- A skull rack from the Templo Mayor
- A burial cache
- Architectural battlements
- Sacrificial knives
- A man with his liver hanging out
- An eagle warrior
- An endless variety of masks
- A shell waistcoat
- A Mayan chacmool from Chichen Itza
- Terracotta figures
- Obsidian
- The burial mask and jewellery of Pakal I of Palenque
- An Olmec head (about 2m high)
- A sun stone
- An ex-voto, commemorating a rail accident
- A figure from Puebla