Deer shrine five miles east of Guadalupe Ocotan

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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

Ethnographic
Public Structure
Ceremony

Subject

Deer
offering
shrine

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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Object Number	Title	Geography/Provenience
40-88-20/76388.1.52	Burned god-house of the Huichol 'gobernador' of Guadalupe Ocotan	Jalisco
40-88-20/76388.1.36	Pedro Chinoi, brother of Pascual Chino, dressed as a singing shaman	Jalisco
40-88-20/76388.1.35	Portrait of Pascual Chino, head of the Chino family group at Vallecuta	Jalisco
40-88-20/76388.1.48	Huichol hunter with brazil-wood bow, reed arrows, and dog	Jalisco
40-88-20/76388.1.41	Stuffed fox representing a Christian carried by Peyote Fiesta celebrators	Jalisco
40-88-20/76388.1.51	Telephoto view of pagan temples and official buildings at Las Latas	Jalisco
40-88-20/76388.1.47	Two tenanches grinding peyote cacti during "Fiesta of the Peyote" at Pochotita	Jalisco
40-88-20/76388.1.49	"Feast of the Hikuli" or "Parched Corn Ceremony" fiesta	Jalisco
40-88-20/76388.1.61	Collection of votive bowls and offerings	Jalisco
40-88-20/76388.1.50	Huichol rancheria in the Tamarita Valley	Jalisco
40-88-20/76388.1.42	Leaders of Peyoteros presents the singing shaman with first fresh peyote plant at the Feast of Hikuli	Jalisco
40-88-20/76388.1.38	Huichol father carrying child on his back	Jalisco

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