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Pre-Columbian Americas Aztec culture, Xochimilco, Mexico Spatula (?) Late Post-Classic period, 1200–1521 Wood H. 12 5/16 in. (31.3 cm) Raymond and Laura Wielgus Collection Indiana University Art Museum, 94.220 Few Pre-Columbian wooden objects survived in Mesoamerica, and we have only a handful that are attributed to the powerful Aztec state in central Mexico that Cortés conquered in the early sixteenth century. This object, said to have been found in Xochimilco, a Post-Classic town that was an Aztec tributary state, is identified as a spatula because no one has been able to offer a definitive explanation for what it might be. |
