Painting
| Object Number: | 97-15-10 |
|---|---|
| Current Location: | Collections Storage |
| Culture: | Huichol |
| Provenience: | Western Mexico Tepic Comunidad Indigena de Zitakua Nayarit |
| Culture Area: | Central American |
| Maker: | Jose Benitez Sanchez |
| Date Made: | circa 1995 |
| Early Date: | 1990 |
| Late Date: | 1996 |
| Section: | American |
| Materials: | Beeswax Yarn Wood |
| Height: | 121 cm |
| Width: | 122 cm |
| Depth: | 6 cm |
| Credit Line: | Purchased from Mark D. Lang, 1997 |
| Other Number: | JS-27 - Collector Number |
Description
Center is maroon colored deer head with birds containing human figures to both the right and left. Upper center is a blue deer head flanked by a row of arrows on the left and a row of antlered peyotes on the right. Lower center is a purple deer head. Top right is a deer. Lower left is a reclined deer looking at a decorated gourd bowl and Kauyumari kneeling behind it on the far left. Upper left is a figure with antlers, a flower, and two deer, and several more humanoid figures. The rest consists of multicolored designs and symbols. (Furst, 2003 p. 71)
Current & Past Exhibitions:
| Huichol Yarn Paintings (1996 - 2004) | View Objects in Exhibition |
Bibliography:
| [Book] Furst, Peter T. 2003. Visions of a Huichol Shaman.. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 59 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
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