The eagle is ubiquitous across Mesoamerican art and across time. We are assembling here resources for a study of this important bird and its ethnobiological significance.
- Mexicolore’s “The Eagle” (Renee McGarry) takes a brief but temporally longitudinal and cross-cultural look at the significance of the eagle in Mexican culture.
- Wikipedia article, “Eagle Warrior“
- The Habsburg two-headed eagle is a prominent motif in colonial art, but a two-headed eagle or bird was also known in pre-Columbian art, such as one can find in Maya stamp art
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Eagle costume (left) on the male of the ruling couple, detail from a lienzo of Tequixtepec (Photo, R. Haskett, 2011)
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A Franciscan coat of arms carved in stone by indigenous artists in the sixteenth century for a new church that was built on the site of a temple dedicated to the Nahua god, Huitzilopochtli, identified with the sun and the eagle, in what is now Mexico City. Museum in the Santo Domingo Cultural Center. (R. Haskett, 2011)
![EagleMural](https://blogs.uoregon.edu/mesoinstitute/files/2013/12/EagleMural-w0j9qn-300x239.jpg)
Detail from a mural featuring an eagle, from an exhibition in the Santo Domingo Cultural Center (S. Wood, July 2011)
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The eagle on the cactus devouring a serpent is a quintessentially Mexican symbol, ubiquitous in Mexican art across the ages and present on the modern Mexican flag. Museo Textil, Oaxaca. (S. Wood, 2010)
For a close study (in Spanish) of the “águila bicéfala” with an emphasis on the state of Oaxaca, see this article by Juan de Dios Gómez Ramírez, published in Ecochac in 2012.