1. Mexican Jewelry
... era. This was when mostly Indians occupied the land. The pre-hispanic Mexican Indians used motifs such as animals, serpents, fish, snails, turtles, birds, and butterflies. Popular for their emotional expression they also used grotesque and distorted figures to adorn their jewelry. The most important feature of pre-hispanis jewelry were the cascabeleses. The cascabeleses are little bells which hung either ... ...
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