Monumental Life/Death Head

Toltec-Aztec culture, Pre-Columbian

900-1500

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Standing male figure with legs spread, arms held slightly forward, hands cupped toward thumbs. Figure wears headdress with raised knobs, earspools, tunic, belt with front and back flaps, bracelets, sandals. Facial features include high forehead, downward-gazing eyes, classic prominent nose-bridge, slightly open mouth.
A double-spouted vessel with squat, globular body. The surface painted with a human/parrot-headed deity. The spouts splayed and tapered. The handle with small break. In red, orange, brown, and beige pigments.
Bowl, Mexico, Pre-Columbian, earthenware
Carved stone mask with deep oval eyes, arched brows, broad nose, deeply carved, slightly open mouth. Ear flanges pierced.