Vintage Mid-60’s Colorful Mexican Folk Art Painting on Amate Tree Bark Parchment For Sale

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Vintage Mid-60’s Colorful Mexican Folk Art Painting on Amate Tree Bark Parchment:
$20.00

UnframedMexican Amate Folk Art, hand paintedin traditional intense colors on tree bark formed parchment. This item depicts a playful rabbit and horse, as well as a colorful bird, amongst vibrant flowers.

Approx. 14" x 10 1/2" (27cm x 36cm).

In extremely good condition.

If you purchase multiple Amate art works, we will happily combine them into one package and adjust down your shipping costs.

A little bit of history about this Amate Folk Art:

Amate, from the Nahuatl (NA-watl) word Amatl (paper), is a type of parchmentpaper used today for crafts by artisans in Mexico. It is manufactured from the bark of various trees, mainly fig and mulberry trees.

The use of Amate has its origin in pre-Hispanic times. During the Mexica Empire, important events and legal documents where registered and written on Amate parchment.

By the end of the 1950s the Nahua Indians of the Balsas region renewed the ancient tradition of Amate making and painted on them. In the State of Guerrero where this featured Amate is from, artisans brightly decorate the Amate with beautiful scenes depicting wildlife, flowers, harvest, and ceremonial customs.