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Examples of "bark paper" artwork by Tony Burton

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Did You Know? Most "bark paper" comes from wild fig trees Tony Burton

Besides being used as a kind of rough paper for records and correspondence, amate was also cut into human or animal forms as part of witchcraft rituals after which it would be buried in front of the pe... read more
Published or Updated on: March 14, 2008 by Tony Burton © 2008
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Author of "West Mexico: A Traveller's Treasury" (3rd edition, Perception Press 2001) and "Lake Chapala Through the Ages — an anthology of travellers' tales" (Sombrero Books, 2008), both available from all good book shops or from www.sombrerobooks.com. Co-author of "Geo-Mexico: the geography and dynamics of modern Mexico" (Sombrero Books, 2010, geo-mexico.com).

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