**Originally Listed At $400**

Latin America, Mexico, ca. early 20th century CE. A large and finely rendered composition in black ink on handmade Mexican Amate paper - a bark paper that dates back to Pre-Columbian times and is still hand made by the Otomi Indian artisans of Mexico using the same traditional methods of their Mesoamerican ancestors originating some 3000 years ago. Amate bark paper has been customarily used to create religious and legal texts as well as attractive figural compositions like this example. Here we see what appears to be a religious procession with dozens of figures in profile, some playing musical instruments, heading toward a facade with a central cross on the lowest register; the registers above featuring many campesinos - both women and men, some men riding horses - amidst rows of thatched roof vernacular edifices. All is surrounded by a decorative border of floral and geometric motifs. Size: 27.5" W x 20" H (69.8 cm x 50.8 cm) Size: 20" L x 27.5" W (50.8 cm x 69.8 cm)

Provenance: private Omer Claiborne collection, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA; acquired over the last 40 years

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#129264

Small old tear / loss to upper margin. Otherwise very good.