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Coiled Serpent
Mexica (Aztec)
15th–early 16th century

Broadside (recto) the legitimate verses of Lino Zamora brought from Real de Zacatecas

Manuel Manilla

1882–92

Broadsheet with songs for a Mexican courtship dance called the 'Jarabe Moreliano', a crowd of people and muscians
José Guadalupe Posada
ca. 1919 (published)

Ear ornament
Mexico

Spindle Whorl
Mexican
10th–early 16th century

Two figures from Santa Maria Atlihuizia, from the portfolio 'Carnival in Mexico'
Carlos Mérida
1940

Seated male figure
Lagunillas artist(s)
200 BCE–200 CE

Spindle Whorl
Mexican
10th–early 16th century

The sacrifice of Hidalgo (El sacrificio de Hidalgo), Plate 16 from "450 Años de Lucha: Homenaje al Pueblo Mexicano" (450 Years of Struggle: Homage to the Mexican People)
Adolfo Quinteros
1960

Architectural Model
Mezcala
1st–8th century

Broadsheet relating to the American Mosquito with verse critical of U.S. imperialism
José Guadalupe Posada
1908

A man wearing an angry expression
José Guadalupe Posada
ca. 1880–1910

A Mexican woman in profile facing right
José Clemente Orozco
1929

Female figure
Chupícuaro artist(s)
400–100 BCE

Broadsheet relating to 'El Huacal' and 'La Tarasca' who love disorder, a corrido (ballad) in the bottom section
Anonymous
ca. 1900–10

An uncut sheet printed on both sides with pages from "Juan Ceniza" (cuento arreglado por C. S. Suarez) and "Rosendito, los leones y el sapo" (cuento por C. S. Suarez)
José Guadalupe Posada
ca. 1900–1910

Ballad (corrido) of Mr Grasshopper (a middleman) who is shown receiving holy communion; a metaphor for peasant suffering under corrupt landowners
Leopoldo Méndez
ca. 1940

Uilacapitztli (Pottery Flute)
Aztec
1350–1521

Head Pendant
Mezcala
1st–8th century

Cover for 'Nuevo Oraculo ó sea El Libro del Porvenír', an old women seated at a table and reading someone's fortune from cards
José Guadalupe Posada
ca. 1880–1910

A seated bulfighter with banderillas raised above his head

Manuel Manilla

ca. 1880–1895

Man and woman (Indigenous people with Maguey)
Rufino Tamayo
1926

Broadsheet relating to the soldiers' song
José Guadalupe Posada
1911

Seated Female Figure with Mirror Disk
Olmec
700–600 BCE

Figure
Veracruz
7th–10th century

Celt
Olmec
10th–4th century BCE

Female Figure
Michoacan (?)
11th–16th century

Stone Animal Figure
Mezcala (?)
1st–8th century

Belle da Costa Greene
Marius de Zayas
ca. 1913

Polishing Stone (pulidor)
Mexican
before 16th century

A woman in her bedroom kneeling on the floor with her hands raised to her head
José Guadalupe Posada
ca. 1880–1910 (a later impression)

Pottery Whistle
Mexican
before 1889

Female Figure
Tlatilco
12th–9th century BCE

Spindle Whorl
Mexican
9th–15th century

A woman surrounded by demons stabbing a man to death from a broadside entitled 'Horroroso Asesinato'
José Guadalupe Posada
ca. 1902 (a later impression)

Stone Pulidor
Mexican
before 16th century

Progressive proof for plate 7 (grey, yellow, green and red) for the Mayan book, the 'Popol-vuh'

Carlos Mérida

ca. 1943

Sampler (Dechado)
Mexican
19th century

Pointing Fingers
Alfredo Zalce
1943

Vessel with scribe
Maya
4th–5th century