Visual Source 6.1: Shield Jaguar and Lady Xok: A Royal Couple of Yaxchilan
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Visual Source 6.1 shows a royal couple from the Maya city of Yaxchilan in the year 724 C.E. with the king, Shield Jaguar, on the left, and his primary wife, Lady Xok, on the right. In helping him dress for a war-related ceremony or sacrifice, Lady Xok offers her husband his helmet, the head of a jaguar, an animal that was widely associated with strength, bravery, aggression, warfare, and high social status. The T-shaped frame at the center top, which contains a number of Maya glyphs (written symbols), indicates a doorway and thus sets the action in an interior space. The king is wearing cotton body armor and carrying a knife, while his wife is clad in a huipil, a blouse similar to those still worn by Maya women in southern Mexico.
Visual Source 6.1 Shield Jaguar and Lady Xok: A Royal Couple of Yaxchilan (Enrique Franco Torillos)
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