Death's head

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Object Number 58-34-20/32029

Display Title Death's head

Descriptions

Subject

Carved Skull
Artifact
Ground Stone

Department Photographic

Culture

Maya
Postclassic period

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

Central America / Mexico / Yucatan / <County> / <City> / Chichen Itza

Intrasite South of door of Casa de Cabecitas.

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Object Number	Title	Classification	Geography/Provenience
2004.24.25841A	Monument 77, Round altar with death's head and jaguar		Bilbao
2004.24.25841B	Monument 77, round altar with death's head and jaguar		Bilbao
94-49-20/C2377.1	Stone sculpture - Death's Head	Effigy Raw Material	Uxmal
95-42-20/C730	So-called Death's Head with tenon	Architectural Element	Copan
92-49-20/C2441	Death's-head in stone	Architectural Element	Copan
58-34-20/73471	Deaths heads adorning head band on large effigy censers a, A-178, see 56A-11-3		Mayapan
58-34-20/66651	Plumbate Human Head Jars; Tlaloc and Death's Head		Tazumal
92-49-20/C18	Death's Head (so-called) with tenon		Copan
93-27-20/C853	Sculptured Death's Head		Copan
58-34-20/73176	3 pottery moulds: fine young face, deaths head, fragment of large effigy head		Mayapan
58-34-20/44178	Tall foot, polished red death's head, problematical object with punctate decorat		Nebaj
58-34-20/35581	Small boulder with death's head carved in low relief. Snake issues from nose		El Baul

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