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Snake with jaguar drawing and the hieroglyph "Smoking Mirror"
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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Azteken
Object type
Stone figure
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 56 x 45 x 45 cm
Gewicht: 148,2 kg
Material/Technique
Stone, jadeite, silicate rock
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 46172

Provenance and sources

when
Postclassical
where
Mexico
Central highlands
who
Azteken

who
Carl Adolf Uhde (1792-02-02 - 1856-11-17) - Collectors

Description
Purchase 1862

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CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED

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