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| Keywords: Aztec - Standard Bearer - Walters 291 - Front Group.jpg This figure with a plumed feather headdress indicating high status was a sentinel of the type that stood at the top of a temple staircase in Tenochtitlán present-day Mexico City the great capital city of the Aztecs He once held something with a shaft in his right hand perhaps a ceremonial weapon Also missing are shell or precious stone inlays that would have decorated the entire face not just the eyes between 1300 1520 basalt shell H cm 90 2 accession number 29 1 7450 French Consul Mexico City date and mode of acquisition unknown Dikran Kelekian New York and Paris date and mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1911 World of Wonder The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1971-1972 place of origin Mexico Walters Art Museum license Aztec art in the Walters Art Museum Aztec stone figurines and statues Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
