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A tourquoise-covered skull from Tomb 7 at Monte Alban, Oaxaca, Mexico. Museum of Oaxacan Cultures, Oaxaca, Mexico. Thought to represent Mictlantecuhtli, the Lord of the Place of the Dead, and was used as a ceremonial or ritual object.
A tourquoise-covered skull from Tomb 7 at Monte Alban, Oaxaca, Mexico. Museum of Oaxacan Cultures, Oaxaca, Mexico. Thought to represent Mictlantecuhtli, the Lord of the Place of the Dead, and was used as a ceremonial or ritual object.
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Mosaic Skull
  • 1250 - 1521 A.D.
  • Americas
  • Jon Fuller Photography/NaturePhoto
  • Late Postclassic Period
  • Lord of the Place of the Dead
  • Mesoamerica
  • Mesoamerican
  • Mexican
  • Mexico
  • Mictlantecuhtli
  • Mixtec culture
  • Monte Alban
  • Mosaic
  • Museo De Las Culturas De Oaxaca
  • Museum of Oaxacan Culture
  • Native American
  • North America
  • Oaxaca
  • Rights Managed
  • Tomb 7
  • UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Historic Centre of Oaxaca and Archaeological Site of Monte Albán
  • archeology
  • art
  • artifact
  • bone
  • ceremonial
  • collection
  • color
  • colour
  • copyright Jon G. Fuller Jr
  • cranium
  • cultural tourism
  • culture
  • display
  • heritage
  • indoors
  • museum
  • pre-Columbian
  • pre-Hispanic
  • rtiual object
  • skull
  • stock image
  • stock photography
  • tourism
  • tourist attraction
  • tourist destination
  • travel
  • turquoise tiles
  • vertical format