Talking Birds The Ceramic of Casas Grandes Book Softcover Tona

Talking Birds The Ceramic of Casas Grandes Book Softcover TonaTalking Birds, Plumed Serpents and Painted Women: The Ceramics of Casas Grandes This bilingual exhibition catalog, published by the Tucson Museum of Art in 2002, is the essential visual and scholarly introduction to the ceramics of Casas Grandes, the ancient civilization that flourished in the Chihuahuan desert of northern Mexico from roughly 1200 to 1450 AD. The site of Paquim, remote and long overshadowed by Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde, produced

This extraordinary fusion piece by Cesar Melchor brings together the spirit of two deeply symbolic Oaxacan animals: the fox and the turtle

Dressed here in what can only be described as a painted universe

and warm red

Dimensions: 6''Tall 13''Long 8''Wide

widely regarded as the father of Oaxacan woodcarving

rounded form

and the joy of song—birds are essential messengers in Huichol cosmology

The pendant suspends from a delicate pastel seed-bead necklace in soft pink

At the center

The carving is full of a story

rich in greens

the surface shines like polished obsidian