Seated Male Carrying Maize

1325–1521 Overall: 31.1 x 24.1 x 30.5 cm (12 1/4 x 9 1/2 x 12 in.) Source image
https://clevelandart.org/art/1949.555

This figure probably represents an Aztec deity-either Macuilxochitl or Xochipilli-whose domain was beauty, the arts, and such pleasures as gameplaying, dancing, and sex. Both names include the Aztec word for "flower," and in one hand the figure holds a cone of flowers, perhaps...

Sculpture

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