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Extended Interview: Diana Magaloni on the Power of Pigments
Art historian Diana Magaloni illuminates the extraordinary measures Aztec artists took to preserve their culture in the Florentine Codex. Using colors and materials that possessed energies from the natural world, they imbued their paintings with a special symbolic life force.
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Experience the fight of Native Americans to keep their languages and ways of life alive.
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Ancient clues and modern science answer the question: who were America’s First Peoples?