Vintage Mexican amate bark painting Description: Charming vintage original folk/naïve Amate bark painting of a village scene. Size: 41x63 cms. Condition: some damage on lower margin as can be seen in the image.; Amate bark painting is an ancient Mexican tradition that centralizes on the painting of paper made from tree bark. Outside of the reaches of European influence, there hadn't been an introduction to traditional paper. Instead, pictures and symbols were painted on their own interpretation.; The art of amate bark painting dates back to the ancient civilizations of the Maya and Nahua people. They each had their own traditions and ways of communicating with the amate bark paintings. The name for the bark paper, in the Nahuatl language, was amatl. The term amatl is where the name amate paper originates from.

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