Brasero del guerrero muerto

Splendid ceramic brazier that still keeps very bright colors in a considerable part of the front, where a figure attired like a warrior of the military order of the eagles was painted and modeled. The elements that characterize him as an eagle warrior are the dress he wears that has an eagle head helmet with a very open beak from where the face of the character emerges, and the bird claw that protrudes from the only lower limb the character kept, as well as the shield and the arrows that he holds in one of his hands. However, this is a dead warrior, as it is indicated by the fleshless face and the ornaments he wears such as the hand-like earflaps and the necklace made of cut hands and hearts, like the ones that are worn by death deities. The warriors that were sacrificed to the Sun are called cuauhtécatl or “dwellers of the eagle land”, since their vital energy went to heaven to become part of the sun army. The brazier has the usual Aztec shape, slightly biconical and ornamented with pointed fringes on the superior rim, which is almost destroyed. Arqlga. Bertina Olmedo Vera