Discovered in 1790 during excavations in the main square in Mexico City, the stone is housed in the National Anthropology Museum there. It may have borne some similarity to a disc housed at Casa Alvarado (MX026), visited on the GCA tour, and hence the reason for this image's inclusion in the Mexico trip series.
Mount reads: "Edward Van Altena, 71-79 W. 45th St., N.Y.C."
Historic plate number: "49."
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Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.
Sponsor:
A project to describe images in this finding aid received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care Initiative, administered by the National Collections Program.
