Talking Birds The Ceramic of Casas Grandes Book SoftcoverTalking Birds, Plumed Serpents and Painted Women: The Ceramics of Casas Grandes This bilingual exhibition catalog, published by the Tucson Museum of Art in 2002, is the essential visual and scholarly introduction to the ceramics of Casas Grandes, the ancient civilization that flourished in the Chihuahuan desert of northern Mexico from roughly 1200 to 1450 AD. The site of Paquim, remote and long overshadowed by Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde, produced

Gorgeous oil on canvas Zapotec Quail painting by Oaxacan woodcarving artist Julia Fuentes

At the center of the piece

adaptability

The coloring in blues and cyan symbolizes the Arctic Ocean

while the circular bead formations suggest unity and eternal cycles

Meet the most playful flightless bird around

dusty brown of a real Xolo's skin

mid-kneel as if studying with full concentration

This extraordinary dog is among the most spectacular pieces of painted woodcarving we have ever offered

The haunches shift to a cool turquoise field of interlocking pinwheels

Dimensions: 5''Tall 8''Long 4

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