Nacimiento Artists:
Agustín Cruz Tinoco
Josefina Aguilar
Luis Valencia
Manuel Jiménez
Francisco Sosa Gutiérrez
Angélica Vázquez Cruz

The third Oaxacan wood-carving area is La Unión, and the outstanding carver here, for me, is Octaviano Santiago. The bright aniline colors with which his wife paints the figures he carves can only be described as astounding. The figures wear almost-traditional Biblical dress but certainly are done in non-traditional colors. (purchased from the artist at his farm in La Unión, May, 1995)

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