Aztec Nefrite Head of a Jaguar, 1300-1521. Artist: Unknown.

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Aztec Nefrite Head of a Jaguar, 1300-1521. The jaguar is America’s largest and most powerful cat, and for more than three thousand years it has been Mexico’s most enduring symbolic animal.

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Size: 6108px × 3265px
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Photo credit: © © CM Dixon/Heritage Images / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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