ISBN:
9680301303
,
9789680301300
Language:
Spanish
Pages:
235 S.
,
Ill
,
30 cm
Edition:
2. ed
DDC:
745.550972
Keywords:
ShellsœzMexico
;
Folk artœzMexico
;
Muscheln
;
Kunsthandwerk
;
Mexiko
;
Mexiko
;
Muscheln
;
Kunsthandwerk
Abstract:
The book studies the artistic importance of the cut shell and mother of pearl objects in the Pre-Columbian Mexica culture, analyzing throughout colonial and conquest chronicles their artististic, social, religious and magic attributes associated with the benefits of the water, the fertility of the land, plant abundance and food production. First published by Grupo Financiero Mexival, [1991] in a very limited edition
Note:
First published: [México] : Grupo Financiero Mexival, [1991]. - Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-230)
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