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Object Number
40-88-20/76388.1.47
Display Title
Two tenanches grinding peyote cacti during "Fiesta of the Peyote" at Pochotita
Descriptions
Object Description
Written on board: "Huichol / Mexico / Jalisco / 40-88 / N30399 H8127"; Typed caption on mount: "Two 'tenanches' grinding peyote cacti during the 'Fiesta of the Peyote' at / Pochotita. The extracted juice is mixed with water and is placed in cere- / monial gourd bowls. At the left may be seen the 'devil-man' handing one of / these gourd bowls to the 'tenanches.' In his right hand he holds a sacred / deer-tail. / The building in the background (center) is the 'Temple to our Father Sun' / in front of which sit the singing shaman and his two assistants. / This name, used at Pochotita and Las Latas, corresponds to Lumholtz's / 'feast of hikuli.' Zingg calls this same fiesta 'the ceremony of parched / corn,' but this name translated into Spanish was meaningless to the natives. / The use of peyote is dying out in the community of Tuxpan..."
Keywords
- Ceremony
- Ethnographic
- Household
- Smoking and Stimulant
Subject
- fiesta
- Peyote
- processing
Department
Photographic
Date
1938
Artist
Edwin F. Myers
Culture
- Huichol
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America
/
Mexico
/
Jalisco
Dimensions
Overall: 19.3675 × 24.4475 cm (7 5/8 × 9 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum Purchase, 1940
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