Earrings and necklaces by artist Federico Jimenez.
The teenager and his father were repairing the foundation of their ancestral home when they unearthed a big pot. Inside they found a pre-Columbian Mixtec Indian chest ornament with strands of turquoise, gold and shell that had been secretly buried by his family. He learned his village had been the capital city of the kingdom of the Mixtecs and that his great-grandfather had likely been their chief. The Mixtecs are Indigenous people of Mesoamerica.
Jimenez’s appetite for antiquities grew, sending him scurrying from village to village in search of more.
Federico Jimenez will participate in the International Folk Art Market in Santa Fe.
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