Art of the Americas - Lion Nagual Figure, Tlaquepaque, Jalisco, Mexico
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This lion nagual figure was likely made by Julián Acero, an important Mexcian artist who worked in the first half of the 20th century, making toys and animal banks. Nagual were humans who had the power to transform, in the spiritual and physical realms, into the shape of an animal. See a very similar example at the Tuscon Museum of Art. This piece was collected in the 1950s by the Roscoes and is in mint condition. |