Diosa de Tlalmanalco

This beautiful sculpture represents a woman in a hieratical attitude comes from Tlalmanalco, State of Mexico, one of the domains of the region of Chalco which was conquered by Mexicas in 1465. The sculptors of this zone are remarkable for their mastery and production of some of the most beautiful imperial art pieces of the Aztec Triple Alliance. This sculpture of a woman dressed in the traditional indigenous way with a triangular garment called quechquémitl that falls on her nude chest, a skirt and bare foot. What indicates that it is a divine image is the calendar name carved in the skirt (“3 Monkey”) and the headdress of interwoven cotton band with a paper bow in the nape of the neck. Like some pre-Hispanic sculptures, it has shell incrustations in the eyes which may have had the iris represented with obsidian or pyrite discs.Arqlga. Bertina Olmedo Vera