Escupido de palo fierro (iron wood)--and representing the creatures of their natural world in vital and often quite beautiful ways--ones we would do well to go on thinking about--that is, que quiere decir conocer a algo en el mundo natural--de la vida misma...
Remember that this came up because of Adriana's collage drawing from the first week--her own plants and animals--which (quite nice in themselves, Adriana!) made me think we should look at the Seri carvings together. su caldidad y belleza es cosa rara... Y tiene que ver con todo aspecto de su cultura anciana...
Frances Toor refers to the Seri in her Mexican Folkways (ca. 1949) and Gary Paul Nabhan much more extensively in his remarkable book, Singing the Turtles to the Sea...
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