TY - BOOK AU - Suárez Díez, Lourdes PY - 2007 DA - 2007// TI - Conchas y caracoles: ese universo maravilloso ET - 2. ed PB - Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia CY - México, D.F. KW - Shells KW - Mexico KW - Folk art AB - The book studies the artistic importance of the cut shell and mother of pearl objects in the Pre-Columbian Mexica culture, analyzing throughout colonial and conquest chronicles their artististic, social, religious and magic attributes associated with the benefits of the water, the fertility of the land, plant abundance and food production. First published by Grupo Financiero Mexival, [1991] in a very limited edition SN - 9680301303 LA - Spanish N1 - Lourdes Suárez Diez; fotografia, Martha Alicia López Díaz ID - 595749577 ER -