A Day in the City

Our visit to the Fair Use exhibit at Columbia College plus a bonus unplanned trip to the Fine Arts building and the Rookery.

Kakawa Chocolate House

We are a specialty chocolate company located in the beautiful high desert town of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Our passion is authentic and historic drinking chocolate elixirs. Historic drinking chocolate includes traditional Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican Mayan Aztec drinking chocolate; 1600's European drinking chocolate, Colonial American and Colonial Mexican drinking chocolates. Kakawa Chocolate House chocolate elixirs are representative of these historic recipes and span the time period 1000 BC to the mid-1900's AD.

Please note that we are a small artisanal chocolate maker. All our chocolate creations are hand made in small batches which takes time. To ensure that our products are of the finest quality they are freshly made.

Please enjoy our website - we have lots of information on chocolate history as well as Kakawa's schedule of events. And, of course, we make and sell chocolate elixirs, wonderful and exotically flavored chocolate truffles, and dark molded chocolates, and other specialty items.

via kakawachocolates.com

Mesoamerican Mayan Aztec Drinking Chocolate, Historic European and Colonial American Drinking Chocolate, Truffles and More.

Museum of New Mexico :: Segesser Hide Paintings

via media.museumofnewmexico.org

Segesser I and II were painted on hides, likely bison, that had been tanned to make them supple, pumiced so that the grain was no longer visible, and sewn together to form a large canvas. The hides do not exhibit any distinctive ground or gesso layer under the paint.

Some scholars believe that the Segesser Hide Paintings were created in New Mexico, where imported canvas was rare and processed hides were used for a variety of purposes, including paintings on hide, or reposteros, that were exported to Mexico.