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| Keywords: Aztec - Knotted Rattlesnake - Walters 292 - View A.jpg Compact and smoothly polished this rattlesnake displays typical Aztec sculptural techniques Both the musculature of this snake's body and its head have been sculpted in great detail The eyes were probably once inlaid and ferocious fangs descend from the snake's upper jaw Snakes were powerful symbols throughout Mesoamerican history linked with the sky rain and agriculture Aztecs may have seen the snake's shedding of its skin as a metaphor for the cyclical nature of life death and rebirth between 1100 1520 Postclassic basalt cm 28 5 40 64 accession number 29 2 21427 French Consul Mexico City date and mode of acqusition unknown Henry Walters Baltimore 1911 mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1911 Themes and Variations in Painting and Sculpture Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore 1948 The Art of Ancient and Modern Latin America Isaac Delgado Museum of Art New Orleans 1968 World of Wonder The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1971-1972 Art of the Ancient Americas The Walters Art Museum Baltimore 2002-2010 place of origin Mexico Walters Art Museum license Aztec art in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Crotalus in art | ||||
