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Object Number
40-88-20/76388.1.48
Display Title
Huichol hunter with brazil-wood bow, reed arrows, and dog
Descriptions
Object Description
Written on board: "Huichol / Mexico / Jalisco / 40-88 / N30400 H8128"; Typed caption on mount: "The Huichol hunter uses a small brazil-wood bow and reed arrows with / wooden foreshafts. The dog helps him retrieve birds and small game. / Deer are not hunted with the bow and arrow but are trapped in fiber-rope / snares. These short hooked machetes, the type used throughout the / Huichol country, are made in Guadalupe Ocotan by the only Mexican / living in the region at the present time."
Keywords
- Animal Husbandry
- Hunting
- Ethnographic
Subject
- Arrow
- Dog
- Hunting
- Bow
Department
Photographic
Date
1938
Artist
Edwin F. Myers
Culture
- Huichol
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America
/
Mexico
/
Jalisco
Dimensions
Overall: 24.13 × 22.225 cm (9 1/2 × 8 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Museum Purchase, 1940
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