Ancient Mexico Art & Artifacts Panels E

ANCIENT MEXICO Ancient Mexico Images on a Granite Bay Graphic Design Microsite GBD MICROSITE
COLLECTION E: All images are from tracings of original pottery stamps.

Mexico City | Guerrero | Chalco

Art and Artifacts from Ancient Mexico on Granite Bay Graphic Design

“The trend of all knowledge at the present is to specialize, but archaeology has in it all the qualities that call for the wide view of the human race, of its growth from the savage to the civilized, which is seen in all stages of social and religious development.”Margaret Murray

Art and Artifacts from Ancient Mexico on Granite Bay Graphic Design

Teotihuacan | Mexico City | Texcoco

Art and Artifacts from Ancient Mexico on Granite Bay Graphic Design

Top row: Upper left: Person with a large headdress from Mexico City. Lower left: Flat stamp from Guerrero. Right: A fantastic, unconventional human figure from Chalco. Second row, left to right: 1. Humans in a circle. 2. A geometrical motif. 3. Humans in a circle. Third row, top: Decorative panel, origin unknown. Third row top, left to right: 1. Frog design from Teotihuacan. 2. A lizard from Teotihuacan. 3. Lizard from Veracruz. 4. A buzzard (Tzopilotl) from Guerrero. Fourth row, left to right: 1. Frets, simplified animals and geometrical forms from Mexico City. 2. Flat stamp from Texcoco. 3. Another flat stamp from the same location as the first image in this row.

* All images were scanned from two different books, each by the same author and each with the same title, “Design Motifs of Ancient Mexico” by Jorge Enciso.

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