In 1896, British archaeological artist Adela Breton visited a newly excavated shaft tomb in Jalisco, thought to be 1,500 years old.
Seven years later, she reported on her experience in the journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.
“The town of Etzatlan is about 70 miles north-west of Guadalajara and at the first coming of the Spaniards it was the capital of a state or canton forming one of a confederation of states called Chimalhuacan, inhabited by peaceful and civilised communities speaking the Nahuatl language.
The mound in question is three leagues north of the modern town, on a level field belonging to the hacienda of Guadalupe, and the owner caused it to be excavated early in 1896. Unfortunately there was no skilled supervision, no data were secured, and most of the figures were broken.
The mound was rounded and about 40 feet high. A wide trench was dug from both the north and the south sides towards its centre and almost through, and about half the mound had been cleared away to the ground level. Nearly in the middle, on the south side, the workmen ... found a skeleton resting on a whitey-grey compound, a sort of grey clay. The skull was finely developed. Above this they found the figures ...
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