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Seated Figure Wearing a Skin, 600–1000

Seated Figure Wearing a Skin

600–1000 · Sculpture

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Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, Verenigde Staten

Zaal233 Mesoamerican and Intermediate Region

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This type of image-showing a human clothed in a sacrificial victim’s skin, visible around the mouth and wrists-is one of the most awesome created by Mesoamerican artists. The figure represents the deity Xipe Totec or a human impersonator. Among the later Aztecs, Xipe was associated with fertility, rain, and renewal. Perhaps the wearer, upon shedding the skin, was conceived as a sprout emerging from a withered husk. Xipe also had military connections.

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Inventarisnummer
1990.246

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BeeldhouwkunstMiddeleeuwenVóór 1400Mexico, Gulf Coast

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In dezelfde zaal · 233 Mesoamerican and Intermediate Region, Cleveland Museum of Art

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