Elsewhere in Mexico: Guadalajara and Tequila, September

Elsewhere in Mexico: Ancient Dinosaur Art, Artisanal Bread, and the Art of the Hoax in Acámbaro

Shreds and Clippings was a bit sparse on writing during August and September, and here's why: I visited a small central-Mexican town that is home to a collection of alleged pre-Hispanic sculptures that depict dinosaurs, camels, and extra-terrestrials, and were discovered by a German amateur archaeologist in the 1940s. Then I wrote an article about it.

The article is out now, in the November/December 'Art' issue of the Believer. The town where the figures were found looks like this:

The museum that houses the figurines looks like this:

And the sculptures look like this:

Elsewhere in Mexico: Pie de la Cuesta

Elsewhere in Mexico: Tepoztlán

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Church.

At a restaurant.

Seed mural, cathedral.

At the market.

Near the market.

It's a fiesta of flavor.

Old men, street.

The guidebook said Tepoztlán is kind of a hippie town.

Fake cacti.

Herb cross on a door.

Pink virgin.

Rock virgin.

Climbing to the temple.

Still climbing to the temple.

Coati with coati.

Coati closer.

Coati in trash container.

View from the temple.

Elsewhere in Mexico: Teotihuacán

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What it all looks like.

 

Map so you don't get lost on the Avenue of the Dead.

 

Guy selling bows and arrows.

Flora.

I didn't go there.

Guy descending pyramid.

Another guy selling bows and arrows. Hunting is big with the Teotihuacán crowd.

 Pyramid of the Moon.