| Mixtec Breastplate, God of Death, gold, lost wax process.
Monte Alban, Oaxaca State, Southern Mexico..
Twenty Centuries of Mexican Art.
New York and Mexico City: The Museum of Modern Art and Instituto de Antropología e Historia de Mexico. Exhibition Catalog, 1940. p. 48.
Olmec-style jade mask, found in offering 20, at the Great Temple of Tenochtitlan, the Templo Mayor. Now in the Templo Mayor Museum, at the ruins site, Mexico City.
Moctezuma's Mexico: Visions of the Aztec World.
Davíd Carrasco and Eduardo Matos Moctezuma.
Niwot, Colorado: University Press of Colorado, 1992. p. 59.
Mixtec Gold from the Monte Alban archaeological site, Oaxaca State. Regional Museum of Oaxaca.
Historia General del Arte Mexicano: Etno-Artesanias y Arte Popular. Isabel Marin de Paalen. Mexico City: Hermes, 1974. p. 13.
Giant Serpent Heads at the base of the Templo Mayor. The ruins site is located in the heart of Mexico City, behind the Metropolitan Cathedral on the Zócalo, or Central Plaza. Notice the 19th century, modern and colonial buildings in the background.
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