Fragment of a statuette, white clay, elaborate headdress, pre-classic. Clay figurines appear in the graves and household debris of the earliest farmers in Mexico and continued to be made and used by successive civilisations until the Spanish…

Human skulls carved in stone, with tenons at the back for fitting into a wall Aztec or Tlascalan style, Mexico, A.D.1450-1520. Described by Dr McPherson as from the southern state of Oaxaca, the skulls are more likely to be from the Atlantic coast…

Human skulls carved in stone, with tenons at the back for fitting into a wall Aztec or Tlascalan style, Mexico, A.D.1450-1520 Described by Dr McPherson as from the southern state of Oaxaca, the skulls are more likely to be from the Atlantic coast…

Sacrificial knife. One of four knives, sacrificial, used at human sacrifices previous to Spanish Conquest in 1526. Inscription: Old label: 146+22