Mexico Wood carving

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México
wood carvings
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Cuanajo (pop. 8,000) is a village of wood carvers
who make brightly painted pine furniture. On the
road as you enter, and around the pleasant,
tree-shaded main plaza, you'll see storefronts
with colorful furniture inside and on the street.
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Wood Carvers of San Antonio Arrazola
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Parrots, plants, the sun, the moon, and faces are
carved on the furniture. Furniture is also sold
at a cooperative on the main plaza. Here you'll
also find soft-spoken women who weave tapestries
and thin belts on waist looms
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Everything is for sale. It is open daily from 9am
to 6pm. Festival day in Cuanajo is September 8,
which honor their patron saint, La Virgen María
(Our Lady of the Nativity)
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corner detail of a finely carved and painted dish
cupboard from Cuanajo
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Colorfully beautiful, whimsical, or elegant, the
best of Mexico's crafts
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Colorful Mexican themes decorate this queen-size
hand-carved and hand-painted headboard
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one detailed scene from a Cuanajo-made table top
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Alevriches
Monte Alban
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Alebrijes (alevriches) are brightly colored
Mexican folk art sculptures of fantastical
creatures. Most Oaxacan artisans simply call them
figuras "wooden figures
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Chinanteco produces these whimsical wood carvings
(Oaxaca)
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Varios Alebrijes en el Museo de las Artesanías,
Huatulco, Oaxaca
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