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Welcome
to Latin Art Mall
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Art Mall brings you a large selection of Arts, Crafts, and
Collectibles from Mexico, South America, and Central America.
Our products are handcrafted and imported directly from the
people that created them. Learn more about the Countries
and People that produce our products in our Reference
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OAXACAN WOOD CARVINGS
Shop our Oaxacan
Wood Carvings - Each of our wood
carvings are hand carved and painted by artists in small villages in the state
of Oaxaca in Southern Mexico. They are creative and wonderfully painted figures
in bright fun colors. Each carving is an original piece of art.
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LATIN TEXTILE ART
Shop our Wall Hangings from Peru and Mexico - You
will also find tapestries depicting things such as flowers, birds, butterflies,
and many other Andean cultural aspects. All
of the sheep wool is handspun, and then naturally dyed with native vegetable,
mineral, and animal dye.
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BLANKETS & THROWS
Shop for Mexican
Blankets - Whether for yoga class or to
add a little Mexican flare to your home decor, our fine Mexican blankets are the
solution. We select only the finest hand crafted Molina Indian blankets. These
thick blankets are truly quality.
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HUICHOL YARN ART
View our Yarn Art
from Mexico - Nestled in the
Sierra de Nayarit, just north of Guadalajara, Mexico, you will find
approximately 12,000 Huichol (Wee-Chol) Indians, a tribe believed to descend
from the Aztec Indians. This area
of Mexico is remote and rugged, and home to one of the last tribes to exist
under the Spanish rule. The Huichol
Indians still follow pagan beliefs, consider deer a sacred animal, grow corn,
which is thought to be the source of all life, and use a form of communication
called peyote. Because of this, the
core of the Huichol Indians consist of deer, corn, and peyote.
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TAGUA CARVINGS FROM ECUADOR
Shop our Carvings from Ecuador - Located
in the northwest portion of Ecuador, a unique venture began called the Tagua
Initiative was formed. This began
in 1990 by Conservation International as a means of creating economic incentives
associated with the tagua palm nut, trying to find a way for the harvests to be
sustained. Because of this
initiative, today we see almost 2,000 people belonging to the Comuna Rio
Santiago-Cayapas, holding down jobs. However,
these jobs depend on the rainforest being left unharmed, allowing the tagua nut
to continue growing.
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TAGUA CARVINGS FROM PANAMA
Shop our Tagua
Carvings - Imported directly
from the Native Indian Artists that created these little masterpieces. Choose
from Animals, Fish, Birds, and Reptiles - all native to the country of Panama
that the carvings come from. The
tagua nut has a strong resemblance to animal ivory, making it a wonderful
resource for creating all types of beautiful things. For many years, the tagua nut was used primarily for making buttons but
with new technology and more affordable materials such as plastics, a decline
began. Even so, the tagua nut still
has value in the making of other things to include chess set pieces, jewelry,
handles for canes, dice, figurines, etc.
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Articles
from our Reference
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The
Olmec civilization of Mexico was in existence from 1200 BC to 600 AD. These ancient people lived in the lowlands where they were often referred
to as “Mother Nature” although they called themselves, “Xi” (Shi). One of the distinguishing factors of this civilization is that they had
very large heads, which on most appeared as being deformed. This understanding came from years of archeological study to include
drawings, statues, and other artifacts.
Living
in the Tuxtlas mountains, today more than 170 monuments created by the Olmec
have been discovered in the area with 80% of those being from the three largest
Olmec areas to include La Venta, Tabasco, San Lorenzo Tenochititlan, Veracruz,
and Laguna de Los Cerros, Veracruz, 38%, 30%, and 12% respectively. For the three regions where the Olmec lived, each had specific natural
resources to help with their economy.
Click here to read more.
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Nestled in the Sierra de Nayarit, just north of
Guadalajara, Mexico, you will find approximately 12,000 Huichol (Wee-Chol)
Indians, a tribe believed to descend from the Aztec Indians. This area of Mexico is remote and rugged, and home to one of the last
tribes to exist under the Spanish rule. The
Huichol Indians still follow pagan beliefs, consider deer a sacred animal, grow
corn, which is thought to be the source of all life, and use a form of
communication called peyote. Because
of this, the core of the Huichol Indians consist of deer, corn, and peyote.
As a very religious and isolated group of people, they express their feelings
through art. So incredible is the
Huichol bead art that most consider it a powerful decoration more than a
profound religious statement. As a
part of this art, you will find yarn paintings, wooden masks, woven or
embroidered adornments, and the most beautiful of all, the incredible bead work,
which is thought to have been created for more than 200 years. Keep in mind that this tribe has its own culture, traditions, and
language, meaning the Huichol bead art created is like nothing else in the
entire world. Click
here to read more.
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In a classic book on the natural setting and
people of Chile, Benjamín Subercaseaux Zañartu, a Chilean writer, describes
the country's geography as loca (crazy). The book's English translator
renders this term as "extravagant." Whether crazy or extravagant,
there is little question that Chile's territorial shape is certainly among the
world's most unusual. From north to south, Chile extends 4,270 kilometers, and
yet it only averages 177 kilometers east to west. On a map, Chile looks like a
long ribbon reaching from the middle of South America's west coast straight down
to the southern tip of the continent, where it curves slightly eastward. Cape
Horn, the southernmost point in the Americas, where the Pacific and Atlantic
oceans turbulently meet, is Chilean territory. Chile's northern neighbors are
Peru and Bolivia, and its border with Argentina to the east, at 5,150
kilometers, is one of the world's longest.
Click
here to read more.
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The Panama Canal continued to play a central role
in world trade and Panama's economy in the mid-1980s. Some 5 percent of the
world's trade in goods passed through the canal, contributing 9 percent of
Panamanian GDP in 1983. This canal's location at one of the crossroads of
international trade has spawned a plethora of other service-oriented activities,
such as storage, ship repair, break bulk (the unloading of a portion or all of a
ship's cargo), transshipment, bunkering, and distribution and services to ship
travelers. The dynamism of the canal also was instrumental in the development of
the CFZ, the trans-isthmian pipeline, and offshore financing. Evidence suggests,
however, that the canal's relative importance to world trade is likely to
continue to experience a small relative decline in the future, which has led
Panama, together with the United States and Japan, to study alternatives for
improving or replacing the canal. Click
here to read more.
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