SOUTH AMERICAN PICTURES
Toltec

File number:- mgb0053

© South American Pictures/ Tony Morrison

Tula, Mexico. One of the Toltec Atlante figures on the Temple of Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli. The figures represented warriors. On their heads is a feathered headdress, on the chest a breastplate in the form of a butterfly, and they have short skirts with a huge belt knotted in front.

 

 

 

 

 

 


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