Cast Statue And Base
date: label: Accession Date
content: 25 Jun 1885
name: label: Collector
content: Louis H. Ayme
label: Donor Name
content: Eufemio Abadiano
notes: label: Notes
content: Cast of statue of Xōchipilli, the god of art, games, beauty, dance, flowers, and song in Aztec mythology. His name contains the Nahuatl words xōchitl ("flower") and pilli (either "prince" or "child"), and hence means "flower prince". In the mid-19th century, an Aztec statue of Xochipilli was unearthed on the side of the volcano Popocatépetl near Tlalmanalco. The statue is of a single figure seated upon a temple-like base. Both the statue and the base upon which it sits are covered in carvings of sacred flowers (psychotropic plants). The figure himself sits on the base, head tilted up, eyes open, with his mouth half open and his arms open. The original statue is currently housed in the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Sep 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Mexico, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Aztec
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 016185
label: USNM Number
content: A77213-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cast