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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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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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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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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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HUICHOL BEAD ART
Shop our Bead Art
- Huichol Bead Art The Huichol
Indians have used art figures and other decorative pieces as offerings to the
Gods for centuries. The Indians work their spiritual symbols and designs into
each piece. This hand carved wood jaguar head was first covered with a layer of
beeswax then using a long needle one small bead at a time is pressed into the
wax creating this vibrant work of art.
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Articles
from our Reference
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Bolivia,
having no coastline, has been termed the Hermit Republic of South America. Its
territory is over 600,000 square miles in extent, and within its bounds Nature
displays almost every possible panorama, and all climates. There are burning
plains, the home of the emu, armadillos, and ants; sandy deserts, where the wind
drifts the sand like snow, piling it up in ever-shifting hills about thirty feet
in height. Bolivia, shut in geographically and politically, is a world in
itself--a world of variety, in scenery, climate, products and people. Its
capital city, La Paz, has a
large population, but the vast interior is nearly uninhabited in many parts. In
the number of inhabitants to the square mile, Bolivia ranks among the lowest of
all the nations of the earth. Click
here to read more.
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The
jaguar, or as he is sometimes called, the American tiger, is the largest and
most ferocious of the cat family found on this continent. Some jaguars have been
seen equal in size to the Asiatic tiger; but in most cases the American, animal
is smaller. He is strong enough, however, to drag a horse or an ox to his
den—sometimes to a long distance; and this feat has been frequently observed.
The
jaguar is found in all the tropical parts of North and South America. While he
bears a considerable likeness to the tiger, both in shape and habits, the
markings of his skin are quite different. Instead of being striped like the
tiger, the skin of the jaguar is beautifully spotted. Each spot resembles a
rosette, and consists of a black ring with a single dark-colored spot in the
middle. Click
here to read more.
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Prior
to the Europeans arriving in Brazil in 1500, this was a country with a
population of between eight and thirteen million people, consisting of
approximately 1,000 tribes. However,
Brazil was faced with 500 years of violence, depression, and disease, which
wiped out most of the aboriginal population.Today about 350,000 Brazilian Indians will exist, which are spread out
over 200 tribes.
These
tribes of the Brazilian Amazon can be found throughout the country. There are more than 100 different tribal languages spoken, depending on
the region. In addition, these
tribes vary dramatically in size, as you will discover. For example, the Yanomami and Guarani tribes have members ranging in the
tens of thousands while there are tribes such as the Kanoe and Akuntsu, which
consist of 30 members or less. 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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