We are proud to offer authentic, premium
quality, 100% wool, Mexican Zapotec Table Runners.
These One-Of-A-Kind Zapotec table runners are hand woven in
Oaxaca Mexico
by indiginous Zapotec Indians and come in unique Southwestern and Mexican
Indian
designs with all natural dyes.
Many have
similar designs but no two are
exactly alike.
Aside from our Zapotec table
runners you
can also view ou 30" x 60"
Zapotec
rugs which are designed the same
way and
style.
Browse through our beautiful table runners
page or select from our extensive
line of southwest decor. We hope you enjoy
shopping with us.
FOR ADDITIONAL INFO. CALL TOLL FREE 1-888-309-7847
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one of a kind
hand made 100% wool premium
zapotec table
runner
approx. 10"x80"
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one of a kind
hand made 100% wool premium
zapotec table
runner
approx. 10"x80"
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one of a kind
hand made 100% wool premium
zapotec table
runner
approx. 10"x80"
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one of a kind
hand made 100% wool premium
zapotec table
runner
approx. 10"x80"
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one of a kind
hand made 100% wool premium
zapotec table
runner
approx. 10"x80"
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one of a kind
hand made 100% wool premium
zapotec table
runner
approx. 10"x80"
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one of a kind
hand made 100% wool premium
zapotec table
runner
approx. 10"x80"
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one of a kind
hand made 100% wool premium
zapotec table
runner
approx. 10"x80"
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one of a kind
hand made 100% wool premium
zapotec table
runner
approx. 10"x80"
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one of a kind
hand made 100% wool premium
zapotec table
runner
approx. 10"x80"
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The Zapotec indigenous people of Mexico live primarily
in Southern Oaxaca and on the Isthmus of
Tehuantepec
and are renowned for their
weavings and carvings.
Little is known of the
origin of the Zapotec. Unlike most native peoples of Middle America,
they had no traditions or legends of migration,
but believed themselves to have been born
directly from rocks, trees, and jaguars.
The early Zapotec were a sedentary, agricultural, city-dwelling
people who worshiped a pantheon of gods
headed by the rain god, Cosijo—represented
by a fertility symbol combining the earth-jaguar
and sky-serpent symbols
common in Middle American
cultures. A priestly
hierarchy regulated religious
rites, which
sometimes included human
sacrifice.
The Zapotec worshiped their ancestors and, believing
in a paradisaical underworld, stressed the
cult of the dead.
They had a great religious
center at Mitla
and a magnificent city
at Monte Albán , where
a highly developed civilization
flourished possibly more
than 2,000 years
ago.
In art, architecture, hieroglyphics,
mathematics,
and calendar the Zapotec seem to have had cultural affinities
with the Olmec , with the
ancient Maya ,
and later with the Toltec
.
Ref: HighBeam Encyclopedia,
HighBeam Research,
Inc.
