Description

Vol. IV No. 10 … The Cover: The textiles woven by the Indians of Guatemala are considered to be among the finest peasant art in the world. One such textile is reproduced here, overlaid with an arrangement of vignettes of the people of the Caribbean Area to simulate a tapestry. The rich ornamentation and wealth of color so often discovered in Latin America springs from the earth itself in a never ending panorama of green and blue – – of grass and trees and jungle and of sky and water. It is man who punctuates it with the flowers he cultivates, the red-roofed dwellings he builds and the costumes he wears. The little figures, typical of the Caribbean lands. Have been adapted from the 1944 Christmas Card of the Sixth Air Force.