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The Clay Figurines of Acambaro, Guanajuato, Mexico

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Charles C. Di Peso
Charles C. Di Peso*
Affiliation:
Amerind Foundation, Dragoon, Arizona
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For the past eight years, stories have appeared concerning a vast collection of animal and human figurines of great antiquity, gathered in the vicinity of Acambaro in the state of Guanajuato, Mexico. Senor Waldemar Julsrud possesses some 32,000 of these artifacts in his private collection. These ceramic figures consist of such forms as Brontosaurus, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Stegosaurus, Trachodon, Dimetrodon and other Mesozoic reptilian life-forms. Also included in the collection are a number of modern life-forms such as cow, horse, hippopotamus, elephant, rabbit, and dog. Even more fabulous is the number of miniature Egyptian sarcophagi found in the collection.

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American Antiquity , Volume 18 , Issue 4 , April 1953 , pp. 388 - 389
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1953

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