Yarn painting; sun upper left; upper right is circle with radiating globes and black cat-like figure within; standing anthropomorphic figure lower right; varicolored; 61.6 X 60.5 cm
Donor:
Terry Rockwood
Collection place:
Nayarit, Mexico
Verbatim coll. place:
Mexico; Nayarit / Jalisco; Huichol; Ramon Medina
Culture or time period:
Wixáritari (Huichol)
Maker or artist:
Ramon Medina
Collector:
Terry Rockwood
Collection date:
Summer 1969
Materials:
Yarn
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Yarn paintings
Function:
5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Dimensions:
height 61.6 centimeters and width 60.5 centimeters