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Barro Negro Pottery
Barro negro pottery ("black clay") is a style of pottery from Oaxaca, Mexico, distinguished by its color, sheen and unique designs. Oaxaca is one of few Mexican states which is characterized by the continuance of its ancestral crafts, which are still used in everyday life. Barro negro is one of several pottery traditions in the state, which also include the glazed green pieces of Santa María Atzompa; however, barro negro is one of the best known and most identified with the state. It is also one of the most popular styles of pottery in Mexico. The origins of this pottery style extends as far back as the Monte Albán period. For almost all of this pottery's history, it had been available only in a grayish matte finish. In the 1950s, a potter named Doña Rosa devised a way to put a black metallic-like sheen onto the pottery by polishing it before firing. This look has increased the style's popularity. From the 1980s to the present, an artisan named Carlomagno Pedro Martínez has ...
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Barro Negro Y Normal-San Bartolo Coyotepec-Oaxaca-Mexico
Barro (Spanish and Portuguese for ''mud'' or ''clay'') may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media * '' Barro Humano'', a 1929 Brazilian film * '' El Dios de barro'', a 1970 Mexican telenovela * ''Entre el barro'', a 1939 Argentine musical film * ''Barro'', a 1951 Honduran novel by Paca Navas People * Aboubacar Barro (born 1991), Burkinabé professional footballer * Adama Barro (born 1996), Burkinabé international footballer * Analyn Barro (born 1996), Filipina actress and model * Andrés do Barro (1947–1989), Spanish singer-songwriter * Joaquín Barro (born 2001), Argentinian professional football player * Josh Barro (born 1984), American journalist * Juan Barro (born 1956), Spanish former swimmer * Oumar Barro (born 1974), Burkinabé former professional football player * Ousmane Barro (born 1984), Senegalese professional basketball player * Robert Barro (born 1944), American classical liberal macroeconomist Places Europe * Barro, Charente, France, a commune * Barrô ( ...
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Alfredo Harp Helú
Alfredo Harp Helú (born 1944) is a Mexican businessman of Lebanese origin, and as of 2011, with a net worth of $1.5 billion, is according to Forbes the 974th richest person in the world. He is also the cousin of multibillionaire Carlos Slim. In 2018, Alfredo Harp Helu ranked #1,867 on the ''Forbes'' World's Billionaires list, with wealth listed at US $1.2 billion. Biography Born on 11 March 1944 in Mexico City, Harp is most famous for being the former owner of the biggest Latin American and Mexican bank, Banamex (now part of Citigroup), and was a billion-dollar beneficiary of Citigroup's 2001 buyout of Banamex. He is also owner of the telecommunication company, Avantel, the second largest telephone company in Mexico (now part of Axtel). On 23 March 2019, the Diablos Rojos del México (Red Devils) opened their new Alfredo Harp Helú baseball stadium in Mexico City. Personal life Harp is married, with several children. He and his family with his second wife divide their ti ...
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Mexican Pottery
Ceramics in Mexico date back thousands of years before the Pre-Columbian period, when ceramic arts and pottery crafts developed with the first advanced civilizations and cultures of Mesoamerica. With one exception, pre-Hispanic wares were not glazed, but rather Burnishing (pottery), burnished and painted with colored slip (ceramics), fine clay slips. The potter's wheel was unknown as well; pieces were shaped by molding, coiling and other methods. After the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, Spanish Invasion and Conquest, European techniques and designs were introduced, nearly wiping out the native traditions. Indigenous traditions survive in a few pottery items such as Comal (cookware), comals, and the addition of indigenous design elements into mostly European motifs. Today, ceramics are still produced from traditional items such as dishes, kitchen utensils to new items such as sculptures and Mexican handcrafts and folk art, folk art. Despite the fame of the prior, the bulk o ...
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Mexican Art
Various types of visual arts developed in the geographical area now known as Mexico. The development of these arts roughly follows the history of Mexico, divided into the prehispanic Mesoamerican era, the New Spain, colonial period, with the period after Mexican War of Independence, the development Mexican national identity through art in the nineteenth century, and the florescence of modern Mexican art after the Mexican Revolution (1910–1920). Mesoamerican art is that produced in an area that encompasses much of what is now central and southern Mexico, before the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire for a period of about 3,000 years from Mexican Art can be bright and colourful During this time, all influences on art production were indigenous, with art heavily tied to religion and the ruling class. There was little to no real distinction among art, architecture, and writing. The Spanish conquest led to 300 years of Spanish colonial rule, and art production remained tied to re ...
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El Siglo De Torreón
''El Siglo de Torreón'' is a Mexican daily newspaper based in Comarca Lagunera, Mexico. It was founded in 1922 in Torreón, Coahuila by Antonio de Juambelz y Bracho under the direction of Joaquin Moreno. History In 1921, Antonio de Juambelz y Bracho was dedicated to the edition of a newspaper in the capital of Coahuila that promoted the candidacy for governor of Gral. Arnulfo González, and when he became governor, the newspaper disappeared. Antonio de Juambelz already had extensive experience in the journalistic field, so Joaquín Moreno invited him to the city of Torreón to start with the project of a regional newspaper, calling himself "Defender of the Community." The first printing machine was obtained from the then governor of the state of Durango, he never refused to donate it because Joaquín Moreno, Antonio de Juambelz was appointed sub-manager while Mr. Moreno himself was the managing director of the nascent company. With few sources and some people who "knew something ...
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Pit Fired Pottery
Pit firing is the oldest known method for the firing of pottery. Examples have been dated as early as 29,000–25,000 BCE, while the earliest known kiln dates to around 6000 BCE, and was found at the Yarim Tepe site in modern Iraq. Kilns allow higher temperatures to be reached, use fuel more efficiently, and have long replaced pit firing as the most widespread method of firing pottery, although the technique still finds limited use amongst certain studio potters and in Africa. Unfired pots are nestled together in a pit in the ground and are surrounded by combustible materials such as wood, shavings, dried manure, leaves, and sometimes metal oxides and salts to affect the surface of the pots. The top of the pit may be protected with moist clay, shards, larger pieces of wood, or metal baffles. The filled pit is then set on fire and carefully tended until most of the inner fuel has been consumed. At around the maximum temperatures are moderate compared to other techniqu ...
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Barro Negro Pottery Fire Pit
Barro (Spanish and Portuguese for ''mud'' or ''clay'') may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media * '' Barro Humano'', a 1929 Brazilian film * '' El Dios de barro'', a 1970 Mexican telenovela * ''Entre el barro'', a 1939 Argentine musical film * ''Barro'', a 1951 Honduran novel by Paca Navas People * Aboubacar Barro (born 1991), Burkinabé professional footballer * Adama Barro (born 1996), Burkinabé international footballer * Analyn Barro (born 1996), Filipina actress and model * Andrés do Barro (1947–1989), Spanish singer-songwriter * Joaquín Barro (born 2001), Argentinian professional football player * Josh Barro (born 1984), American journalist * Juan Barro (born 1956), Spanish former swimmer * Oumar Barro (born 1974), Burkinabé former professional football player * Ousmane Barro (born 1984), Senegalese professional basketball player * Robert Barro (born 1944), American classical liberal macroeconomist Places Europe * Barro, Charente, France, a commune * Barrô ( ...
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Mezcal
Mezcal (, ), sometimes spelled mescal, is a liquor, distilled alcoholic beverage made from any type of agave. Agaves or magueys are endemic to the Americas and found globally as ornamental plants. The ''Agave'' genus is a member of the Agavoideae subfamily of the Asparagaceae plant family which has list of Agave species, almost 200 species. Mezcal is made from over 30 ''Agave'' species, varieties, and subvarieties. Native fermented drinks from agave plants, such as ''pulque'', existed before the arrival of the Spanish, but the origin of mezcal is tied to the introduction of Filipino-type stills to New Spain by Filipino people, Filipino migrants via the Manila galleons in the late 1500s and early 1600s. These stills were initially used to make ''vino de coco'', but they were quickly adopted by the indigenous peoples of the Pacific coastal regions of Mexico and applied to the distillation of agave to make mezcal. Mezcal is made from the heart of the agave plant, called the . Th ...
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Cantaro
The cantaro is a percussion musical instrument, instrument. It is a clay Pottery, pot that is struck in its outer surface or mouth with a hand, creating different effects. Water can be used to pitch the instrument to a desired sound. In Mexico, particularly in the states of Guerrero and Oaxaca, it is used to accompany chilenas, sones, parabienes, gustos, minuetes, jarabes oaxaqueños, and indigenous dances. The cantaro is also used in the fandangos mixtecos of Puebla. See also *Udu, a similar musical pot found in Africa References

* * Mexican musical instruments Central American and Caribbean percussion instruments Struck idiophones played by hand Aerophones {{Idiophone-instrument-stub ...
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Museo Estatal De Arte Popular De Oaxaca
The Museo Estatal de Arte Popular de Oaxaca (State Museum of Popular Art of Oaxaca) or MEAPO is a small museum in the municipality of San Bartolo Coyotepec just south of the Oaxaca, Oaxaca, city of Oaxaca in Mexico. It is run by the Oaxaca, state of Oaxaca to showcase the entity's Mexican handcrafts and folk art, handcrafts and folk art tradition, through its permanent collection, online "cyber-museum", collaboration with national and international entities, and sponsorship of events such as craft markets, conferences, and temporary exhibitions. It is dedicated to the crafts and to the artisans and the cultures behind the items. Its collection contains samples of most of the crafts produced in the state, especially the Central Valleys region, but most of its collection consists of barro negro pottery, the specialty of San Bartolo Coyotepec. It is run by director Carlomagno Pedro Martínez, a recognized artisan and artist in barro negro. The organization The Museo Estatal de Arte ...
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Barro Negro Design Oaxaca
Barro (Spanish and Portuguese for ''mud'' or ''clay'') may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media * '' Barro Humano'', a 1929 Brazilian film * '' El Dios de barro'', a 1970 Mexican telenovela * ''Entre el barro'', a 1939 Argentine musical film * ''Barro'', a 1951 Honduran novel by Paca Navas People * Aboubacar Barro (born 1991), Burkinabé professional footballer * Adama Barro (born 1996), Burkinabé international footballer * Analyn Barro (born 1996), Filipina actress and model * Andrés do Barro (1947–1989), Spanish singer-songwriter * Joaquín Barro (born 2001), Argentinian professional football player * Josh Barro (born 1984), American journalist * Juan Barro (born 1956), Spanish former swimmer * Oumar Barro (born 1974), Burkinabé former professional football player * Ousmane Barro (born 1984), Senegalese professional basketball player * Robert Barro (born 1944), American classical liberal macroeconomist Places Europe * Barro, Charente, France, a commune * Barrô ( ...
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