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19434

From: Mexico (Central America) | Mexico City

Curatorial Section: American

Object Number 19434
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Mexico (Central America) | Mexico City
Culture Area Central American
Locus Puente de Alvarado
Section American
Materials Cypress
Description

Fragment of "Tree of Sorrowful Night" - historic cypress standing in Puente de Alvarado, Mexico City where Cortez found shelter on the night of 7/1/1520 (Free Museum of Science and Art Bulletin)

Credit Line Gift of Robert O. Babbitt Esq, 1897

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