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Alebrijes, Fantastical Beasts with Rainbow Faces
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS It’s often been said that one man’s nightmare is another man’s dream, but in the case of alebrijes, one man’s nightmare became his own dream-come-true path to success. Back in the early 1930s, Pedro Linares, a poor Mixe paper maché artisan in the remote Oaxacan village of San Martín Tilcajete was in the throws of illness in
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