Mexican Photo Collection

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( This Section is Under construction - 60 photos available now, with approximately 140 to be added later.)
(C) Copyright 1975, and 2003 Carroll Williams, all rights reserved.  You may copy any photo for educational
or other non-commercial use.  The majority of the photos now available are of ancient artifacts and monuments.
Future photos added to this site will depict villages, towns, and the people of Mexico.
   
Items noted with the letters NMA are found in the National Museum of Anthropology at Chapultepec Park
in Mexico City, Mexico.

     Welcome to Mexico
 1.  Mexican Flag marking U.S. Mexican border at Reynosa, Tamaulipas
 2.  Entrance - Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City
 3.  Courtyard and Fountain - NMA
 4.  Tlaloc the Aztec Rain God - NMA 
 5.  Aztec carving - NMA
 6.  Aztec stele - NMA
 7.  Tula wall section - NMA
 8.  Mayan Temple - NMA
 9.  Red Jaguar from Chichen Itza in Yucatan - NMA
10. Chichen Itza Temple of the Warriors Chichen Itza, Yucatan
11. Palenque in Chiapas State
12. Palenque in Chiapas, Temple of Inscriptions
13. Olmec head from Vera Cruz - NMA
14. Clay crab figure - NMA
15. Male figure looks surprisingly Oriental - NMA
16. Clay figure 1 - NMA
17. Clay figure 2 - NMA
18. Stone figure hands and wings - NMA
19. Aztec clay figure - NMA
20. Aztec stone figure - NMA
21. Aztec stele - NMA
22. Aztec warrior, clay figure - NMA
23. Aztec warrior, second clay figure - NMA
     Note: Tenochtitlan was the thriving Aztec capital of Mexico when Cortez arrived in 1519
24. Model of Tenochtitlan - capital of Aztec Empire - NMA
25. Model of Tenochtitlan - capital of Aztec Empire - NMA
26. Ruins of Tenochtitlan in downtown Mexico City
27. Aztec altar found when digging for Mexico City subway
28. Objects from Teotihuacan - NMA
29. Terra cotta vase - NMA
     Note: Teotihuacan is a city of mystery.  It was built by an unknown people many years
     before the arrival of the Spanish.  It was an abandoned city and lay in ruins when first 
     viewed by Cortez and his small army in 1519.  Stone colors in my photos appear to range
     from deep grays to light browns.  This is the result of photos taken at different times of the day.
30. Calzada de los Muertos, Street of the Dead at Teotihaucan
31. Teotihuacan looking north to the Pyramid of the Sun
      (center) and Pyramid of the Moon in distance to the left.
32. Patio One with residential living quarters - Teotihuacan
33. Civic buildings at Teotihuacan, on Calzada de los Muertos
34. Calzada de los Muertos with Pyramid of the Moon in background
35. Calzada de los Muertos looking north
36. Jaguar painting on an interior wall at Teotihuacan
37. Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan
38. Carroll Williams on the Calzada de los Muertos, Teotihuacan
39. Carroll Williams examines the base of a stone column, Teotihuacan
40. People ascending and descending the Pyramid of the Sun
41. Stairway detail, Pyramid of the Sun
42. Stairway looking east, Pyramid of the Sun, Teotihuacan
43. Buttress detail, south side - Pyramid of the Sun
44. Compressed telephoto lens view, full length Street of the Dead
     Calzada de los Muertos at Teotihuacan
45. Looking south from the top of the Pyramid of the Moon, with Pyramid of the Sun to the left.
     Late afternoon view, Pyramid of the sun is to the left.
46. Looking north to the Pyramid of the Moon at twilight.
47. Structures on west side of the Calzada de los Muertos, Teotihuacan.
48. Matching structures on east side of the Calzada de los Muertos, Teotihuacan
49. West face, Pyramid of Quetzalcoatl at Teotihuacan
50. West face details, Pyramid of Quetzalcoatl at Teotihuacan
51. Dragon head detail, Pyramid of Quetzalcoatl at Teotihuacan
52. Jaguar head, about 3 feet long, east side Calzada de los Muertos
53. Toltec temple at Tula in the State of Hidalgo, Mexico
54. Toltec warrior columns at Tula Hidalgo
55. Construction detail, Toltec warrior columns at Tula, Hidalgo
56. Carroll Williams with Toltec warrior columns at Tula, Hidalgo
57. Face detail, warrior column at Tula, Hidalgo
58. Shield on back side of each warrior column at Tula, Hidalgo
59. Burned out Palace of the Toltecs at Tula
60. Inside the burned out Palace of the Toltecs at Tula

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