Codex Zouche Nuttall Pre Columbian Mixtec Hispanic Mexican 14th Century Metal Print

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This is a restored copy of a scene from the 14th century Pre-columbian Codex Zouche Nuttall, The original was painted on animal skins and was found in Oaxaca, Mexico. This scene depicts Mixtec warrior chiefs and warlords performing a ceremony. This piece also depicts a parrot, snakes, and alligator or dragon. Warriors were very important to Mixtec culture as they were continuously in a state of endless bloody and brutal war with neighboring tribes.
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I have been a visual artist since the 1960s. I'm originally from Orange County, New York, located in the Metro New York City region where I was raised on the working dairy farm [Ogden Farm] which my family founded in 1832. As a young man I spent many long hours working in gardens, crop fields, pastures and in barns with livestock. I grew up surrounded by antiques. I graduated from Bucknell University where I majored in art which included a semester in Florence studying Italian Renaissance art. After Bucknell I studied at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. I have lived throughout the U.S. [including three years in Sante Fe, New Mexico], in the Caribbean and in Mexico and Central America. I now reside in the 19th century...