People in Shanghai got a chance this weekend to try their hand at creating some unique folk art from Mexico. A group of artists demonstrated how to carve wooden totems and paint them with traditional designs.

For three hours on Saturday, these students got to work with an art form that was completely new to them. These brightly-colored sculptures at the Cervantes Library in Xuhui district are called alebrijes - images of animals from ancient Mayan mythology carved from wood and then covered in oil paint. Though the first alebrijes were only created in 1936, the traditional designs go back nearly 3000 years.

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