class="notranslate">Polished
quartz or rock crystal hyaline and probably adorned with the sharp tip of a
crystal of the same stone; with native copper and paten
were breastplates, large pots for making salt pots and other household uses.
Emptied
gold in special molds for a variety of jewelry that were his pride;
gold
stamped figures of their chiefs and the devil; glasses,
whistles, helmets, breastplates and bracelets were gold, and they were
decorated with flags and laminated fabrics for the precious metal.
In
special huts were forges, furnaces, crystal mud, etc., in which emptied large
parts, as well as other minute.; employing clay molds and wax;
after
molten gold foils were beaten with stone hammers on other smooth stones and
slimming as a sheet of paper, however have it stamped drawings. They
had the expertise to manage the gold and white wax.
No
less was his artistic ability in modeling clay cookware, whistles, crucibles
for melting gold, vessels for evaporation of salt for the table, or aromatic
herbs to burn their idols, with reliefs made by printing or chisel;
In
some of his ceramics, representing their bosses a little grotesque, greater
accuracy is evident in the figures of animals and reached perfection in the
reproduction of some fruits such as papayas, thousand dollars, melons;
did
not use flowers and foliage as decorative elements, the clay pieces were
subjected to simmer and
