Word: patrocino
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Discovery of the year was a 28-year-old Spanish-American from Taos, N. Mex. named Patrocino Barela, with an instinctive talent for wood carving. He presented a number of bultos, which are Southwestern religious carvings, each whittled from a single block of wood. To the most ambitious of these, a 14-in. stump of native pine carved into simplified interlocking trees and figures representing the Hope or Four Stages of Man, Whittler Barela appended his own explanation...