Spatula(?)

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Culture Aztec

Title Spatula(?)

Date 1200–1521

Medium Wood

Dimensions Mount: 3/8 × 2 1/4 × 2 in. (1 × 5.7 × 5.1 cm)
Object: 12 3/4 × 1/2 × 5/8 in. (32.4 × 1.3 × 1.6 cm)
Overall (includes mount): 13 1/8 × 2 1/4 × 2 in. (33.3 × 5.7 × 5.1 cm)

Credit Line Raymond and Laura Wielgus Collection, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University

Accession Number 94.220

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Few wooden objects from this era 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.

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"Spatula(?) | Collections Online." Collections Online. Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 2024. https://artmuseum.indiana.edu/collections-online/browse/object.php?number=94.220