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Designs from pre-Columbian Mexico

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Bold, rhythmic circle designs, originally incorporated on small clay spindle weights, depicting man-like deities; animals both real and fantastic; reptiles, birds, flowers, masks, geometrical figures, wheels, foliage, maze-like patterns, frets--all employed with the boldness and fanciful characteristics of pre-Columbian art. …

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Bold, rhythmic circle designs, originally incorporated on small clay spindle weights, depicting man-like deities; animals both real and fantastic; reptiles, birds, flowers, masks, geometrical figures, wheels, foliage, maze-like patterns, frets--all employed with the boldness and fanciful characteristics of pre-Columbian art. Sourcebook of 300 motifs created by the Aztecs, Toltecs, Totonacs and other pre-Conquest peoples of Mexico, found on malacates discovered in archaeological digs, reproduced in black-and-white.

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"Bold, rhythmic circle designs, originally incorporated on small clay spindle weights, depicting man-like deities; animals both real and fantastic; reptiles, birds, flowers, masks, geometrical figures, wheels, foliage, maze-like patterns, frets--all …"

— Margaret

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