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Artist Template:Unknown (almost certainly a fake from 19th century)
Description
English: Pendant-mask associated to the rituals of the Aztec god Xipe Totec, Mexico Valley.
Français : Masque-pendentif associé aux rituels du dieu aztèque Xipe Totec, vallée de Mexico.
Date 15th century; before 1521
Medium stone (rhyolite)
Musée du quai Branly, Paris (previously of the Musée de l'Homme, Paris)
Accession number MH 71.1878.1.60
Object history collection of Earl Peñasco; collection of Eugène Boban
Credit line

1878: ceded by Alphonse Pinart

deposited to Musée du quai Branly by Muséum national d'histoire naturelle/Musée de l'Homme
Source/Photographer Marie-Lan Nguyen (2006)
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