"The beautiful designs in this book come from a variety of sources. The Maya and Aztec from ancient Mexico once used them in hieroglyphs and pictograms. They survived as wall paintings, and on excavated pots, figurines and clothes from mummies. The Inca adorned their pottery with geometric decorations or abstract depictions from everyday objects. The much older Nazca were known for their fine textiles and colourful pottery with motifs that appear to depict their pantheon, including a variety of creatures, some hybrid and some fanciful. The Moche on the other hand made beautiful objects from gold, silver, copper and other metals."
Mexico - Teotihuatecan Knight-Eagle
Mexico - Maya Death God
Mexico - Toltec Eagle
Mexico Maya Kukulcán
Mexico - Quetzalcoatl as Wind God
Mexico - Aztec Day Signs
Peru - Moche Crabman
Peru - Moche Boat
Peru - Moche Eagle Warrior
Peru - Moche Dragon
Peru - Mohica God of the Foxes
The images were scanned from 'Native Designs from Ancient Mexico & Peru', 2006 and are posted here with permission.
These images & rendering are © Maarten Hesselt van Dinter / Mundurucu. But the actual designs, being ancient and traditional Maya, Aztec and Inca cultural and mythological pictograms, are in the public domain. Many of these designs can be seen in book and manuscript scans among previous related posts: Mesoamerica.
Also previously: Native North American Designs; Celtic Designs; Indian Designs.
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