[clarkevans]

What's fun about the Coatlicue statute, currently located in the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City, is that the earth deity is on the bottom. This statue is so large that one wouldn't be able to "tip" it over to look. Yet, there it is... a carving on the underside where no one can see it. Of course, the museum has a cast of the image adjacent where modern viewers can look at it. More about this kind of fun stuff is in Claudia Brittenham's book, Unseen Art: Making, Vision, and Power in Ancient Mesoamerica (disclaimer: she's my lovey wife).