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The painted mural is one of a pair which flanked an interior doorway of the Tetitla Compound. The figure, known by scholars as a net-jaguar, proceeds toward a temple. A scroll is seen emerging from his mouth, symbolic of precious objects such as songs or eloquent, flowery speech.

Net-Jaguar Mural
Teoihuacan, Tetitla Compound, 600-700 CE
Fresco
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The Robert Woods Bliss Collection of Pre-Columbian Art

Dumbarton Oaks Museum, Library & Research Center

Georgetown neighborhood
1703 32nd St NW
Washington, District of Columbia

Taken in: United States / District of Columbia / Washington / Cloisters (show map)

Taken on: May 12, 2015

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