Yucatan - Terres Cuites (Plate 8) (Terracotta Sculptures and Masks from the Yucatan Region, Uxmal, Yucatan, Mexico)

Artist	Leon Gaucherel (1816-1886)
Engraver	Augustin Francois Lemaitre (1797-1870)
Date	1843
Technique	Copper Engraving
Category	Uncategorized
Source	Mexique et Guatemala par M.De Larenaudiere, Peru par M.Lacroixd, Paris, Firmin Didot Freres, Editeurs, Imprimeurs Libraires de L'Institut de France

Description

This plate presents sculptural and ceramic artifacts from the Yucatán region, depicting ritual masks and carved figures associated with pre-Columbian Mesoamerican belief systems. Such objects were commonly interpreted by 19th-century European scholars as evidence of advanced symbolic and religious traditions among ancient American civilizations.

Mesoamerica, Yucatán, pre-Columbian art, ritual objects, archaeology, 19th century exploration