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<p>[QUOTE="evelyb30, post: 534512, member: 36"]It's fun finding the pieces that cross over, artistically. Artists have been influencing each other, borrowing back and forth, since the Hittites and the Jebusites. The fun part is figuring out which bits originally came from where. </p><p><br /></p><p>I always thought the Naja design was North African, brought into Spain by the "Moors" when Spain was partly Muslim. The Moors were given the boot, but the design influence stayed. Some of that came to the New World with the Spanish, who then swapped designs with the locals. </p><p><br /></p><p>Proceed to confusion.(LOL)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="evelyb30, post: 534512, member: 36"]It's fun finding the pieces that cross over, artistically. Artists have been influencing each other, borrowing back and forth, since the Hittites and the Jebusites. The fun part is figuring out which bits originally came from where. I always thought the Naja design was North African, brought into Spain by the "Moors" when Spain was partly Muslim. The Moors were given the boot, but the design influence stayed. Some of that came to the New World with the Spanish, who then swapped designs with the locals. Proceed to confusion.(LOL)[/QUOTE]
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