rebozo

A hardworking mom spins yarn on a spindle while carrying her baby in a rebozo on her back. Glowing in the night sky, the crescent moon reveals the late hour. David Laura Zanabria portrays the woman in a handwoven wool tapestry. Raised high-relief borders add definition and texture.

Angel del Palacio mixes crayons and colored pencils on paper to create this expressive portrait of an elderly Purepecha woman as she covers her face from the bright light of the sun. She folds her rebozo over her head and wears a warm sweater in the chill morning in Michoacan. The composition is matted, mounted on a pinewood stretcher and covered with a protective pane of glass.

Titled "Mujer de suéter gris" in Spanish.

Doña Dolores will grace your home like nobody else - dead or alive! Luis Morales handcrafts this elegant Catrina sculpture from ceramic and clads her in a gorgeous flame orange apron with floral designs over an olive green skirt. She wears a traditional black rebozo shawl decorated with colorful floral designs over her head.

Luis Morales comes from a generations-long tradition of artisans. His favorite items to craft are Catrina figures because of their unique iconography.

Inspired by the masks of the Guinean Toma people, Salihu Ibrahim creates this mask from local sese wood and paints it with natural beige and brown hues. Many of the young boys of the Toma participate in a ceremony meant as an initiation into adulthood, which involves donning masks known as landai, after a kind of forest spirit. Traditionally depicted with long faces and topped by horns, wearing these landai masks represents being devoured by spirits and being reborn into society as adult men.

Huitzilopochtli, the Aztec god of sun and war, appears in colorful regalia in this ceramic sculpture by Angel Cerón. He is inspired by the images of the legendary deity featured in the Mexica Codex, for the original sculpture was said to have been destroyed by a Spanish soldier and was rescued by a Tlatolatl. The statue reappeared in 1530 during an investigation by Bishop Zumárraga, only to be lost again. It is speculated to be safely hidden in a cave somewhere in the Anahuac Valley. Huitzilopochtli was represented as a hummingbird as it was believed that great warriors are reborn as these birds. Huitzilopochtli is usually depicted with a feathered headdress, a black face, and a scepter shaped like a snake. Ceron sculpts the piece with yellow clay and uses natural dyes for color.

Huitzilopochtli, the Aztec god of sun and war, appears in colorful regalia in this ceramic sculpture by Angel Cerón. He is inspired by the images of the legendary deity featured in the Mexica Codex, for the original sculpture was said to have been destroyed by a Spanish soldier and was rescued by a Tlatolatl. The statue reappeared in 1530 during an investigation by Bishop Zumárraga, only to be lost again. It is speculated to be safely hidden in a cave somewhere in the Anahuac Valley. Huitzilopochtli was represented as a hummingbird as it was believed that great warriors are reborn as these birds. Huitzilopochtli is usually depicted with a feathered headdress, a black face, and a scepter shaped like a snake. Ceron sculpts the piece with yellow clay and uses natural dyes for color.