This video addresses what a cuauhxicalli is by looking at a jaguar cuauhxicalli from the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City and an eagle cuauhxicalli from the Templo Mayor Site Museum. The video describes what a cuauhxicalli is, what the term means in Nahuatl, how it functioned, and what its imagery symbolized for the Aztecs in Mesoamerica.

CHAPTERS

0:00 What is a cuauhxicalli?

0:34 Cuauhxicalli's meaning in Nahuatl

0:53 An imperial sculpture for a ruler

01:13 Symbolism of jaguars

1:27 Symbols inside the receptacle