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CABEZA COYOTE

This work excavated by Jorge Acosta was part of an offering in the Adoration of the building
known as The Corral. It represents a feathered coyote from whose sickles a man emerges
with beard and mustache.
The base was made of Plumbate ceramic, to which shell mosaics were decorated
mother-of-pearl to represent the feathers. The teeth of both characters are made of bone, in
so much so that the hair and beard are made with seashells. It is very likely to be
deals with an early representation of the coyote warriors later taken up by
the Mexicans. The work manifests the symbolic link between beasts and war, as well as the aspiration Toltec by obtaining the embodied essence of the great predators.

Origin: Adoratorio de El Corral, Tula, Hidalgo (Early Postclassic, 900-1250 AD)