Altar with Virgen de Guadalupe
Object Details
- Collection Creator
- Rose, Vita
- Culture
- Wixarika (Huichol)
- See more items in
- Vita Rose photographs of Guadalupe de la Cruz Rios and family
- Extent
- 1 Photographic print
- Date
- 1996-1999
- Container
- Photo-folder 4
- Archival Repository
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Identifier
- NMAI.AC.372, Item P33779
- Type
- Archival materials
- Photographs
- Photographic prints
- Collection Citation
- Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Vita Rose photographs of Guadalupe de la Cruz Rios and family, image #, NMAI.AC.372; National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.
- Collection Rights
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- Scope and Contents
- An altar set up for a Wixarika (Huichol) Bull Ceremony, with velas (candles), corn in five colors, jicaras (gourds), muvieris (prayer arrows), and a portrait of Our Lady of Guadalupe, in Nayarit Mexico. A Bull Ceremony is held when a Wixarika (Huichol) pilgrim completes five journeys to Wirikuta (Wiricuta). See also P33776.
- Vita Rose Narrative
- When a Huichol pilgrim completes five viajes (journeys) to the sacred high desert of Wiricuta, the community holds a Bull Ceremony. The animal's life is sacrificed with tenderness and regrets after a night of prayer and ritual. The altar, set up outside on the ground, includes many velas (candles), corn in 5 colors, jicaras (gourds), and muvieris (prayer arrows). Many but not all Huichols have adopted the Virgen de Guadalupe into their pantheon, along with Tatewari, Grandfather Fire and Kayumari, Elder Brother Deer.
- Collection Restrictions
- Access to NMAI Archives Center collections is by appointment only, Monday - Friday, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm. Please contact the archives to make an appointment (phone: 301-238-1400, email: [email protected]).
- Record ID
- ebl-1706296200842-1706296201090-1
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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