In the bays of Huatulco and Puerto Angel (Oaxaca, Mexico) is still a pre-Hispanic custom, from October to March arriving Mixtec dyers to dye their skeins of cotton, dye milking a snail called Purple pansa , which then return to the sea. These skeins purple later be sold to the weavers of their peoples, so that the Posahuancos clothing, skirts with great religious and magical burden, associated with fertility and death. Interestingly, in ancient Japan used a variety of the same snail called Imperial Purple, to dye the robes of the Emperor's clan for symbolism associated with the nobility.
photo: Fulvio Eccardi
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