Grass-thatched sleeping hut

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Object Number 40-88-20/76388.1.26

Display Title Grass-thatched sleeping hut

Descriptions

Object Description Written on board: Huichol / Mexico: State of Jalisco / Tuxpan District / Grass-thatched sleeping hut. It is reached by a notched-log ladder & is built off the ground as protection against scorpions. The owner of the hut wears a "Peyroteros" hat / All photos copyright by Edwin Forgan Myers

Keywords

Clothing and Accessory
Dwelling
Ethnographic

Subject

thatch
Hut
Hat

Department Photographic

Date 1938

Artist Edwin F. Myers

Culture

Huichol

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

Central America / Mexico / Jalisco

Materials Print, black and white adhered to Paperboard

Dimensions Overall: 5.72 cm (2 1/4 in.)

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Object Number	Title	Geography/Provenience
40-88-20/76388.1.39	Example of common Huichol thatched hut at Vallecita in the Tuxpan section	Jalisco
40-88-20/76388.1.10	Little boy. Part of house construction and its bamboo walls may be seen	Jalisco
40-88-20/76388.1.24	Pascual Chino demonstrates how shaman beats hollow log drum (tépu)	Jalisco
40-88-20/76388.1.20	Two men, man on left wears ready-made Mexican hat.	Jalisco
40-88-20/76388.1.2	San Sebastian Huichol now living at edge of Tuxpan District	Jalisco
40-88-20/76388.1.21	Boy playing with bow and arrows. Tunic is of hand woven wool.	Jalisco
40-88-20/76388.1.23	Married couple	Jalisco
40-88-20/76388.1.22	Native with one of his two wives. Her capeblouse is made from red bandana handkerchiefs	Jalisco
40-88-20/76388.1.25	Young married couple in front of their private god-house.	Jalisco
40-88-20/76388.1.27	Married couple. The woman is weaving a girdle and man is making a stool	Jalisco
40-88-20/76388.1.28	Huichol man, a peytote pilgrim, holding a decorated violin	Jalisco
40-88-20/76388.1.13	One of the officials of Santa Vatarina who was called in to the municipal center	Jalisco

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