#Caturday:
Reclining #Jaguar, c. 1400-1521
#Aztec artist, Mexico
Volcanic stone
From Brooklyn Museum’s “Climate in Crisis: Environmental Change in the Indigenous Americas” exhibition

“To the Aztec, the jaguar symbolized power, courage, and a warlike attitude. Some of the highest-ranking warriors were called jaguar warriors, and rulers associated themselves with Tezcatlipoca, a deity who sometimes assumed the guise of this powerful predator.”

#MesoamericanArt #IndigenousArt