Bright Hand Painted Quetzalcoatl Alebrije Sculpture - Colorful Quetzalcoatl Lucite Green Visitors are served cow’s milk

Visitors are served cow’s milk from orange gourds

Buana designs it

Hand-painted with the kaleidoscopic swimming turtle

made to symbolize imagination and fantasy

adorning this lovely snake with a graceful palette of aqua

Bright Hand Painted Quetzalcoatl Alebrije Sculpture - Colorful Quetzalcoatl Lucite Green Visitors are served cow’s milkThis delightful papier mache alebrije sculpture is crafted by Marina Lozano in Mexico. The artisan creates her version of a quetzalcoatl, which was a feathered serpent deity in ancient Mesoamerica. The creature is painted by hand in bright colors and varied patterns. The folk art tradition of alebrijes dates back to the 1930's in Mexico City. A man named Pedro Linares was taken ill, and in his fevered dreams he saw a strange land populated with