Publication

2007 - Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, México, D. F, Mexico

Language

Spanish

Word Count

58,750 words, Guess

Page Count

235 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • DDC745.550972
  • LCCQL421 .S83 2007

Description

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.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Conchas y caracoles: ese universo maravillosoInstituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia2007-01-01

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