Conchas y caracoles
Subtitle: ese universo maravilloso
By: Lourdes Suárez Diez ; fotografía, Martha Alicia López Díaz.
Edition: 2. ed.
Publisher: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia
Published: 2007
Place of publication: México, D. F
Language: spa
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9789680301300
Subjects: Shells -- Mexico; Folk art -- Mexico
Description: The book studies the artistic importance of the cut shell and mother of pearl objects in the Pre-Columbian Mexica culture, analyzing throughout colonial and conquest chronicles their artististic, social, religious and magic attributes associated with the benefits of the water, the fertility of the land, plant abundance and food production. First published by Grupo Financiero Mexival, [1991] in a very limited edition.
Notes: First published: [México] : Grupo Financiero Mexival, [1991].

Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-230).