SOUTH AMERICAN PICTURES
Toltec

File number:- mgb0070

© South American Pictures/ Chris Sharp

Tula, Mexico. One of the Toltec Atlante figures on the Temple of Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli. Standing 4.6 metres high and carved in basalt, the figures represented warriors. They wear a feathered headdress and on the chest a breastplate in the form of a butterfly.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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