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| | ArtLex on Pre-Columbian Art |
 | | Mexico: state of Guerrero, Ahuelican, Highland Olmec, Middle Formative period, 900-500 BCE, Tablet, which has an incised glyphic inscription, greenstone, 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 x 3/4 inches, Dallas Museum of Art. |
 | | Mantle, 2nd-1st century BCE, Paracas, camelid hair, 54 1/4 x 74 3/8 inches (137 x 188.9 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. |
 | | Images of twelve "oculate beings" are worked into this mantle by a technique called interlinked sprang, which replicates the pattern in mirror image on either side of the vertical center. |
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