West Mexico's Best Dog

🐾YOU WANT DOGS? WE GOT 'EM!🐾 WELCOME to Twitter's #1 (and only) page dedicated to Pre-Columbian Ceramic Dogs! Our goal: to supply you with only the finest, most charming of dog artworks (hint: all of them) Maybe you'll even LEARN something?! Threads🧵 linked below:

@Checomal @AztecEmpire1520 Yes! Anytime there are tests for Pre-Columbian DNA, a Chihuahua tends to test for higher percentage than other breeds (still very low tho!) The jump from Pre-C ancestor to modern Chihuahua is also very foggy. They basically just appeared on the border one day in the 1800’s

@AztecEmpire1520 I remember reading that Chiwawas have some of the widest gene pools of any dog breed due to being a truly ancient breed.

Commonly depicted xolo dogs are relatively modern. Colonial breeding. Want a more accurate depiction of Mesoamerican dogs? Check out the many Colomina sculptures of domesticated animals. And, yeah, they were often foodstuffs.

@AztecEmpire1520 Bonus: here is the oldest picture of a Xolo I could find where you can see the long legs are likely a more modern addition However, you also have to keep in mind dog breeds can change quickly (think pug in 100 yrs) so is not always easy to know who looked like what!

@AztecEmpire1520 Are the long legged dogs the Xolo ancestor? We don’t know, but the wrinkled ‘hairless’ dogs likely are! Their body shape may have changed dramatically, but the gene that causes the hairlessness has not. The wrinkle pattern of modern Xolo’s is similar to what we see on ceramics

En la casa de cultura de Acolman realizaron un mural sobre el mercado de perritos y el Tlachtemalácatl de San Bartolo.

Back from my mini hiatus (due to raising a hairless dog) to announce I saw two ICONS of ‘shaped like a friend’ artworks in Kansas City 🌟 More pics later once I come down from this high

El patrimonio arqueológico de México es testimonio vivo de la grandeza de las civilizaciones que nos antecedieron. En la subasta “Auction 105 Africa, Asia, Oceania, Pre-Columbian Art Antiquities”, organizada por @ZemanekMuenster y programada para el 15 de noviembre de 2025 en Würzburg, Alemania, el @INAHmx determinó que 18 piezas anunciadas como procedentes de nuestro país son propiedad de la Nación, protegidas por la Ley Federal sobre Monumentos y Zonas Arqueológicos, Artísticos e Históricos. Estos objetos no son mercancía ni decoración. Hacemos un llamado a detener su venta y a respetar nuestra memoria histórica. #MiPatrimonioNoSeVende @cultura_mx

This dog is was up for auction last year on Sotheby’s from a collector in Brussels. Definitely a looker with those tight wrinkles, bent ears, and big muzzle… Not sure where he ended up, but he would be a fun one to authenticate given such a wild deviance from style

The haters will say otherwise, but this is peak male performance

@cosmikchaaya I really enjoy your art style paired with your attention to detail with clothing! I think to be accused of erasure is a really harsh critique against someone who does as much research as you do I hope you won’t be discouraged to continue enjoying what you do!

There are actually Amerindian features I consciously kept in my designs. One being their short heights (men at 5’3” average) and the other being bigger noses. (Xiuhpapalotl is an exception with a smaller nose for variety’s sake) I’m currently aiming to represent stockier builds.

It turns out wrinkles never went out of fashion 💅 A legacy of hairless dogs from Veracruz, Colima, the Chimú, and one particularly fashionable modern descendant

Oh the cackling I have done since seeing this TikTok 😂

Corazón de Nopal🇲🇽✨🌿

It’s Mexican Independence Day! Here’s some guys who just happen to be standing in the tricolor order of the Mexican flag 🇲🇽

Spotted right outside Colima City on wplace

Embracing the past 🌻 The amount of precolumbian ceramic in Venezuela is impressive, so this is only a tiny tiny fraction of them Some will be turned into creatures so stay tuned!

@biastapes Thank you! She’ll hopefully be around 13-15lbs, perfect for her Chihuahua siblings!

@TheColimaDog She’s so cute! Like a little coffee bean! How big will she get?

Studying hairless dogs past and present isn’t an easy job, so I’ve decided to add a co-researcher to the team! Introducing Chelsea the toy Xoloitzcuintli! 💙My new best friend and next step in the adventure of learning all I can about these cherished dogs 🐾

Preliminary observations: -This dog runs HOT 24/7, I will never need a heated blanket again -Maintaining her skin is gonna be an adventure bc there doesn’t seem to be a one solution fits all according to other owners -This is perhaps the Velcro dog to end all Velcro dogs

@chakhdz @NewYorker Y para comparar con los perros de las colecciones de museos, aquí hay uno en Denver. El cuenco es mucho más grande aquí, ¡y fíjense que la boca del perro está cerrado! denverartmuseum.org/en/object/1969…

@chakhdz @NewYorker Considerando que se encuentra en la oficina de un funcionario mexicano, creo que es: A) Una pieza auténtica que quizás fue repatriada y se exhibe de ese o B) Una réplica para decoración (Por eso está en una mesa al aire libre)

Early in his diplomatic career, a mentor gave Carlos González Gutiérrez the advice to focus on the Mexican American community. “L.A. belongs to everybody,” he said, “but Mexicans are part of it in a very central, essential, structural way.” nyer.cm/6g8hfom