Yarn painting
- Museum number:
- 3-24457
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21030024457
- Alternate number:
- X67-74 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.2755
- Description:
- Yarn painting, square panel, green field, striped border, diagonal filled-in corners; five figures circling a ceremonial center, multi-colored but basically maroon figure on right holding a branch. Four other antlered persons facing figure on right but positioned around center. 61 cm sq.
- Donor:
- Peter T. Furst and University Appropriation
- Collection place:
- Mexico
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Nayarit or Jalisco
- Culture or time period:
- Wixáritari (Huichol)
- Maker or artist:
- Ramon Medina Silva
- Collector:
- Peter T. Furst
- Collection date:
- 1968
- 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
- Accession date:
- 1971
- Department:
- Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
- Dimensions:
- length 61 centimeters and width 61 centimeters
- Loans:
- S1987-1988 #5: Hyatt Regency Hotel (July 16, 1987–September 17, 1987)
- Legacy documentation:
-