AZTEC STONE FEMALE FIGURE of Chicomecoatl, ca. A.D. 1450-1521

kneeling with hands on her lap, her face enveloped in the large rectangular headdress, amacalli, featuring a flower rosette at each corner, stiff segmented paper plumes secured with a twisted cord around the head, and long paper segments trailing down onto her shoulders, wearing the fringed quechquemitl cape, skirt and ear ornaments; with remains of deep red pigment overall.

Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York , (probably stock book no. "1086",   "Goddess/Headdress with discs", acquired May 21, 1941)

Overall good, has old losses to some areas, small chip on front of her skirt, slight loss to flower rosette on top front left side and loss on rosette rear right .
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Also referred to as the "Goddess of the Temple Headdress", she is associated with maize  which she sometimes holds, and is an important female cult figure to the non-elite; see Pasztory (1983:218, pls. 180-182).