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Nayarit Village Group. Ixtlan del Rio, Nayarit, Mexico, Proto-Classic Period, c.100 BC-250 AD, Ceramic and paint, Width 9 1/4 inches. The peoples of West Mexico held more than a dozen annual feasts to commemorate religious and political events as well as ceremonies related to rites of passage. The grandest feasts were held for ceremonies dedicated to ancestors or to the dead... The houses represented in this village group are typical of the thatched-roof structures common in the pre-Columbian Americas and can still be seen in use today. Harold W. Shaw Collection at the Dayton Art Institute. |
