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Xolotl is shown in this reproduction drawing of a page from
one of the Borgia Group codices, which researchers believe
were created in the same region as the dog god sculpture.
Many iconographic elements, including the tongue, fangs,
wrinkles, and facial stripes, match those on the sculpture.A mask representing Yacatecuhtli (“The Nose Lord”), the
god of merchants, was one of the objects brought to Bologna
by the friar Domingo de Betanzos when he met with Pope
Clement VII in 1533. It is now in the Luigi Pigorini National
Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography.