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Fig.12.34<br />

Fíg. t2.34<br />

Xipe Tlacacaliliztli sacrifice with scaffolds<br />

Central Mexico, Late Postclassic period<br />

a. Mixtec Tlacaxipehualiztli ceremony (detail from Nuttal Codex)<br />

Draw<strong>in</strong>g by Taube<br />

b. Carved and gilded atlatl, with conch-blower and figure <strong>in</strong> jaguar mask.<br />

(Museo Nazionale ed Etnografico L.rigt Pigor<strong>in</strong>i, Roma. Redrawn by<br />

Taube after Easby and Scott 1970: hg.293.)<br />

c. Mixtec Tlacaxipehualiztli ceremony (detail).<br />

Codex Becker I, p. !0.<br />

Draw<strong>in</strong>gs by Karl Taube as Fig. 12.1", p.332 tn<br />

Taube, 1988, "Ancient Scaffold Sacrifice Among the Maya," <strong>in</strong> Mayø<br />

Iconogrøphy, ed. by Elizabeth P. Benson and Gillett G. Griff<strong>in</strong>, t988,<br />

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