Title
Vessel with Butterfly Headdress, 1-550. Creator: Unknown.
Caption
Vessel with Butterfly Headdress, 1-550. The headdress shown on this vessel combines a serpent's mouth with a butterfly's proboscis (feeding tube), which curls between the eyes. The butterfly often appears in the headdress of the Great Goddess, an extremely important Teotihuacán deity. Stucco (paper-thin, painted plaster) is fragile and usually does not survive well; the stucco of the basin in this case has been repaired.
Credit line
Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art
Reference
HRM19G18_210
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
License type
Rights managed
Available size
48,3Mb (3,2Mb) / 13,8in x 13,5in / 4154 x 4061 (300dpi)