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Human sacrifice before Tohil - Drawing. Public domain image.

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Human sacrifice before Tohil - Drawing. Public domain image.

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Title from Kislak Collection guide.
Watercolor painted by Diego Rivera in San Francisco, Calif. during the summer of 1931, originally commissioned to illustrate a never-published English translation of the Popol Vuh by John Weatherwax. Depicts the first humans making sacrifices to the god Tohil. underworld.
Watercolor and gouache on paper.
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Provenance: Gift of Jay I. Kislak Foundation.

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01/01/1931

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Rivera, Diego, 1886-1957.

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Library of Congress

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Public Domain