figures (representations)

After the growth of the Olmec culture, the focus of Mesoamerican civilisation shifted towards the northward coast of the Gulf of Mexico. With its political and religious centre in El Tajín, the capital of the Totonac Empire, Veracruz culture showed a great mastery of the ceramic technique, with the production of modelled statues for funerary use. Originally, they were polychromatic and chapopote (…