Aku Research

Sample pages from nice book I found at a car boot some time ago. Aku are a Dutch company I think that make polymer fibres. They have factories all round the world - well they did back when this book was printed in the 1960's by the look of the photos.

Aztec Gods and Twentieth Century Housing Estates

Sunday, 6 March 2016

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   Bollops6 March 2016 at 18:40

   F*** me, that's brilliant!

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   Dolly Dolly6 March 2016 at 20:57

   Isn't it just?

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   Ben8 March 2016 at 09:45

   Extraordinary stuff.
   
   Those photographs look very elaborately staged... I wonder whether this was tied in with a TV programme, or else some kind of real life project for kids?
   
   Also: they ate a bison?! No wonder the town engineer looks so aggrieved at this outbreak of modern day primitivism.

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   Bollops8 March 2016 at 11:34

   TV prog - YES, according to TV Cream. Made in Holland and broadcast in the holiday morning slot on UK telly apparently, though I don't remember seeing it.

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   Keith Seatman9 March 2016 at 10:08

   Top stuff indeed Dolly. Looks like we all missed this one. I have no recollection of this being on TV at all during the holiday morning slot. Has any one seen it???

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   Bollops9 March 2016 at 13:58

   I wonder if it was one of those "East Anglia only" jobs?

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   zeroid15 March 2016 at 15:21

   Wow first visit to this blog and I see this post, I remember reading this at middle school, something made me think about it a while ago and I could not remember the title at all, just that it had mention of an Aztec god. After many searches for kids book/Mictantlicuti or some such I gave up. And here it is!

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   zeroid15 March 2016 at 15:23
   Almost a Nazi salute going on in that first picture.