Front page | Photographer: Martin Franken | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 InternationalRear view | Photographer: Martin Franken | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 InternationalIndex card | Photographer: Ines Seibt | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 InternationalTorso of the stone figure of a Xipe. The cult of Xipe Totec existed long before the Aztecs. Most Xipe Totec sculptures show male figures in the flayed skin of a human sacrifice. The incision can be seen where the heart was removed before the flaying. The skin is carefully bound together in several places.
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Height: 35 cm
Depth: 17 cm
Width: 30 cm
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American Archaeology
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