Serpentine bust Centeotl – Historic Print
![Serpentine bust Centeotl, [between 1880 and 1897] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/9f/9f286a85e731-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Serpentine bust Centeotl
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This glass negative records a serpentine bust of Centeotl, the Aztec god of maize, held at the National Museum in Mexico City. Carved from dark green serpentine, the stone head is a rare example of Mexica sculpture in that material, and the photograph shows its heavy, carefully worked features. The negative is attributed to the American photographer William Henry Jackson, who documented Mexico's antiquities and landscapes in the 1880s and 1890s. Its later place in the Detroit Publishing Company collection reflects how such images were circulated as souvenirs and reference views of Mexico.
| Created / published | [between 1880 and 1897] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 5 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Attribution to Jackson based on Catalogue of the W.H. Jackson Views (1898). Colossal head of a human, at National Museum. Detroit Publishing Co. no. X 8577. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. |
| Subjects | Sculpture. Aztecs. Indians of Mexico.Mexico--Mexico City. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 646 × 980 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-76550 |
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