| The most magnificent and perhaps surprising sculptures found, were two unique masterpieces of the potter’s art, life-size images of men wearing eagle costumes which were found flanking the entrance to a series of rooms to the north of the Great Temple complex. Very few human-scale clay images are known from Prehispanic Mesoamerica: this may be due to the technical difficulties presented by the manufacture of statues of this size. Each figure was made in four sections. The head with eagle helmet has a tenon which fits into a mortise in the second portion, consisting of the torso with bent and extended arms displaying eagle’s wings. Eagle claws were modeled on the calves of the figure, while remains of the white clay on the upper leg area represented feathers |
