Alebrijes

What are Alebrijes?

• Realistic animal figurines

• Mexican fantasy animal figurines

• Mexican sugar skulls

• Mexican candy

Alebrijes were first created by

• Aztec artists

• Mayan artists

• Diego Rivera

• Pedro Linares

Alebrijes are made from ____ wood.

• Pine

• Oak

• Copal

• Maple

Alebrijes are decorated in

• realistic animal patterns and colors

• sacred religious symbols

• bright colors and patterns

• no decoration

Most Americans know about alebrijes from

• museums

• art history class

• fairy tales

• the Pixar movie "Coco."

Because of the popularity of alebrijes, some communities have had to

• Raise the prices of alebrijes

• Make them in overseas factories

• Start conservation programs to save the copal trees

• Make alebrijes out of plastic

Alebrijes are mostly from the region of Mexico near

• Oaxaca

• Cancun

• Mexico City

• Los Angeles

The artist who first created Alebrijes got the idea from

• a Pixar movie

• a dream

• his grandmother

• Aztec statues

Character maker Alonso Martinez said that it took him ________ to create the character "Pepita", based on alebrijes.

• 2 weeks

• 2 months

• 6 months

• 2 years

Traditionally, alebrijes contain:

• the spirits of the dead

• characteristics of a few different animals

• solid gold

• a magic spell