Cleveland Museum of Art
Plate
- Date
- c. 800
- Medium
- earthenware with colored slips
- Culture
- Mexico, Campeche, Maya
- Department
- Art of the Americas
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Its pose and jewelry suggest this flamboyantly painted figure may represent a human clad in the skin of a jaguar. Because the jaguar is the largest, most powerful predator in Mesoamerica, it was a natural metaphor for earthly and supernatural power alike. Apex predators like jaguars are natural power metaphors.
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