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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 4342198, member: 2844&quot;]You&#039;re right, the figurine I posted in #19 is wearing an almost complete skin, including genitals. I have seen Xipe Totec representations wearing a complete skin, with hands and feet dangling from the skin. The object was to wear a complete outside of a human body, giving the impression of the deceased human.</p><p><br /></p><p>It just got under your skin, didn&#039;t it.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie75" alt=":playful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>No apologies needed, not at all.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie59" alt=":kiss:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> It is good to bounce ideas off each other, and give the &#039;little grey cells&#039; something to work on.</p><p><br /></p><p>My father traveled extensively through Latin America for his job, and always brought back examples of local culture. Anything from pre-Columbian artifacts (when it was still legal), to costumes and jewellery, to boxes full of records.</p><p>My brother and I grew up listening to the songs and the stories, and being surrounded by pre-Columbian art. We both wanted to become archaeologists and read every book on the ancient cultures of the Americas we could find.</p><p>When we were in our teens we traveled to Latin America as a family, and our fascination and love only grew.</p><p><br /></p><p>It always warms my heart when I get the opportunity to delve into a subject like this, an old love, connected with nice childhood memories.</p><p>So thank you [USER=3235]@Drew[/USER] for posting the figurine, and thank you [USER=255]@reader[/USER] for giving me an incentive to dig in my memory to find some dormant information.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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