El Sombrero

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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.

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Scope and Contents: Portrait of Matchua, a young boy, wearing his full regalia for the annual Wixarika (Huichol) pilgrimage to Wirikuta (Wiricuta). His mother Maria Felix, niece of Wixarika (Huichol) marakame, or shaman, Guadalupe de la Cruz Rios, has embroidered an 8-pointed design in the center of his shirt representing a peyote cactus button. His hat is trimmed with seedpods.
Vita Rose Narrative: Matchua wears his full regalia during the Huichol annual pilgrimage to Wiricuta, the sacred high desert in Central Mexico. The very youngest children wear their own vestuarios (sacred clothing), which are embroidered by their mothers with symbols seen in peyote visions. Matchua's mother Maria Felix embroidered the deep pink eight-pointed design in the center his shirt representing the peyote cactus button eaten by pilgrims of all ages. The seedpods around the rim of Matchua's sombrero rattle like light rain and remind him to listen to the Gods voices.

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Vita Rose photographs of Guadalupe de la Cruz Rios and family

Creator

Rose, Vita

Summary

This collection includes photographic prints made by Vita Rose circa 1996 of Doña Guadalupe de la Cruz Rios and her family in Nayarit, Mexico. Guadalupe de la Cruz Rios was a Wixarika (Huichol) visual artist, musician, and spiritual leader.