Guillermo Dupaix’s expedition reports on Mexican serpent imagery

Record summary

Captain Guillermo Dupaix’s expeditions and the later publication of his descriptions of Mexican antiquities recorded monumental serpent and feathered-serpent imagery, including material later connected with Quetzalcoatl traditions. The records matter because they document an early nineteenth-century attempt to classify Indigenous monuments and their associated narratives. They concern artefacts and historical interpretation rather than an observed creature. Publication history, editorial intervention, and the accuracy of Dupaix’s identifications should be checked against surviving manuscripts and later editions.