Designs from pre-Columbian Mexico
By: Jorge Enciso.
Series: Dover pictorial archive series
Publisher: Dover Publications; Constable
Published: 1971
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 105
Subjects: Indians of Mexico -- Art.; Spindle-whorls.
Description: Bold, rhythmic circle designs, originally incorporated on small clay spindle weights, depicting man-like deities; animals both real and fantastic; reptiles, birds, flowers, masks, geometrical figures, wheels, foliage, maze-like patterns, frets--all employed with the boldness and fanciful characteristics of pre-Columbian art.

Sourcebook of 300 motifs created by the Aztecs, Toltecs, Totonacs and other pre-Conquest peoples of Mexico, found on malacates discovered in archaeological digs, reproduced in black-and-white.