Sugar Cane Pressing Mixtec Wood/Paint/Cotton

Wood/Paint/Cotton

light and darkness

Given that dogs seem to be the commonest animal seen in Oaxacan street life

one man with a huge white balloon and two people disguised as giants (see their head below the waist in a cut out in the dress

The subject is identified in many church carvings which are themselves a source for contemporary woodcarvers and painters such as Maria Jimenez Ojeda

Sugar Cane Pressing Mixtec Wood/Paint/Cotton51 h. 19 cm Wood Paint Origin Oaxaca Signed One of Agustn's traditional subjects is farmers processing their sugar cane. This rare piece is lovingly carved and has been painted by Edilma Cruz Prudencio, the daughter of Agustn.