Word: oaxaca
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time of the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards, the Indian goldsmiths of Oaxaca were perhaps unsurpassed by any in the world. Many other tribes from Mexico to Chile were also expert workers. They were proficient in the arts of casting, hammering, and embossing gold, silver, and copper, and had perfected the art of plating the baser metal with pure gold...