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Word: freyer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stirrups. Indian painters in Cuzco showed Christ's bleeding heart pierced by Indian arrows, and the Three Wise Men journeying to Bethlehem on llama-back. In gold-encrusted paintings from the Frank Barrows Freyer Collection, recently exhibited at the Columbus (Ohio) Gallery of Fine Arts, Christ is depicted on the Cross with native Peruvian flowers banked at his feet, while the Child Virgin is portrayed holding a distaff, vividly recalling Mama Oclla, the Inca deity who, according to legend, taught the Indians how to spin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crafts: Half-Breed Brilliance | 3/1/1968 | See Source »

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