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Deer shrine five miles east of Guadalupe Ocotan
Deer shrine five miles east of Guadalupe Ocotan
Object Number 40-88-20/76388.1.53
Display Title Deer shrine five miles east of Guadalupe Ocotan
Descriptions
Object Description Written on board: "Huichol / Mexico / Jalisco / 40-88 / N30405 H8145"; Typed caption on mount: "This deer shrine was found about five miles east of Guadalupe Ocotan. / See Zingg's 'The Huichols: Primitive Artists' pp. 356, 660 and 661."
Keywords
  • Ceremony
  • Public Structure
  • Ethnographic
Subject
  • shrine
  • Deer
  • offering
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: 19.685 × 24.4475 cm (7 3/4 × 9 5/8 in.)

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