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Visual representation; made of bark paper (amate in Spanish); rectangle of cream bark paper for background; rectangle of peach-coloured bark paper glued onto background; brown bark paper human figure surrounded by animals pasted onto peach paper, with gold-coloured paper eagle in each corner; holes cut around border, with alternating peach- and gold-coloured triangles painted on between holes.
Curator's comments: See Sayer, Chloë. Crafts of Mexico. New York: Doubleday, 1977 p. 126-7; Sandstrom, Alan R and Sandstrom, Pamela Effrein. Traditional ...