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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Taupou, post: 2440335, member: 45&quot;]Right, amate paintings are a Mexican folk art.&nbsp; However, I can see why there was confusion about the animals depicted.&nbsp; First, they all appear to have cloven hoofs, which eliminates the possibility of them being rabbits.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>They also have longish, drooping tails, long necks, and long ears (which can be drooping, or erect.)&nbsp; The drooping ears and tails would eliminate them being llamas.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The colors are white, tan/gold, and brown.&nbsp; There aren&#039;t too many cloven hoofed animals that come in all those colors, that also have those other characteristics.&nbsp; But maybe they are not all supposed to be the same animal, although they do look a lot alike.</p><p><br /></p><p>So I would suspect that there are two possibilities.&nbsp; First, they may not be intended to represent any particular animal, but rather a fantasy-type &quot;generic&quot; animal, similar to another form of Mexican folk art, the alebrije wood carvings.&nbsp;&nbsp; Or, they may represent sheep (the white one), a deer (the brown one), and &quot;something else&quot; (the gold one.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I have several amate paintings, and I would think this one dates to the 1960s-1980s, based on the complexity and subject matter.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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