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Material: wool: brown, beige, green, red, yellow-brown, white cotton warp threads.\Technique: woven, flat weave.\The pattern in the dress, a monkey, comes from a depiction often found on pre-Hispanic stamps.\Hundreds of the stamps exist, with depictions of snakes, jaguars, birds, monkeys and so on.\These were probably used to stamp paper, which was then burned as an offering to the gods.This happened in the more peripheral areas where contact with the gods in other forms (sculptures, temples, pyramids, etc.) was much less frequent. This type of monkey is typically Aztec: the two visible, wide-spread arms and legs, the curl in belly and tail, and the crown or comb.‖ Similar stamp motifs are widely used in folk art around Tlacolula.‖ Two photos from the Musée de l'Homme, as examples of such stamps. The description on the back read: \"Mexique. sceaux ("pintaderas") en terre cuite pour les peinture facuakes. This is a different interpretation from Field's: the stamps were said to be used for body decoration. Field thinks this is unlikely; he has found neither archaeological nor ethnological evidence that this custom existed.
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Material: wool: brown, beige, green, red, yellow-brown, white cotton warp threads.
\Technique: woven, flat weave.
\The pattern in the dress, a monkey, comes from a depiction often found on pre-Hispanic stamps.
\Hundreds of the stamps exist, with depictions of snakes, jaguars, birds, monkeys and so on.
\These were probably used to stamp paper, which was then burned as an offering to the gods.
This happened in the more peripheral areas where contact with the gods in other forms (sculptures, temples, pyramids, etc.
) was much less frequent.
This type of monkey is typically Aztec: the two visible, wide-spread arms and legs, the curl in belly and tail, and the crown or comb.
‖ Similar stamp motifs are widely used in folk art around Tlacolula.
‖ Two photos from the Musée de l'Homme, as examples of such stamps.
The description on the back read: \"Mexique.
sceaux ("pintaderas") en terre cuite pour les peinture facuakes.
This is a different interpretation from Field's: the stamps were said to be used for body decoration.
Field thinks this is unlikely; he has found neither archaeological nor ethnological evidence that this custom existed.
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