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Guitar, Violin, Cow's horn trumpets, rattle and dried peyote
Guitar, Violin, Cow's horn trumpets, rattle and dried peyote
Object Number 40-88-20/76388.1.34
Display Title Guitar, Violin, Cow's horn trumpets, rattle and dried peyote
Descriptions
Object Description Written on board: Huichol / Mexico / Jalisco / Guitar, Violin, Cow's Horn Trumpets, Rattle, and Dried Peyote. See collection list nos. 146, 148, 132, 195. 213, 177 / The owner of the violin carried the instrument with him on a Peyote Pilgrimage and decorated it with peyote symbols painted on with yellow paint made from the root (called "kiéli: in Huichol) which is found in the Peyote country. He also made a new top piece to which the strings are attached of this sacred wood. The back of the violin is marked with the blood of a bull sacrificed at a "Ceremony to Prepare te Soil for seed." The violin is decorated with a band of woven beads and small woven bag containing bees' wax. / photographs copyright by Edwin Forgan Myers
Keywords
  • Ethnographic
  • Smoking and Stimulant
  • Music and Sound Communication
Subject
  • trumpet
  • Guitar
  • violin
  • Peyote
  • rattle
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: 11.43 × 16.8275 cm (4 1/2 × 6 5/8 in.)

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