Grapefruit Caper

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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, posed smiling with a grapefuit peel on his head. His mother Maria Felix, is the niece of Wixarika (Huichol) marakame, or shaman, Guadalupe de la Cruz Rios.
Vita Rose Narrative: Toys are conspicuous for their absence on the rancho, but Matchua never lacks for something to play with. Whether he's wrestling with a puppy, climbing a tree with his many brothers, sisters and cousins, or creative a stellar sombrero out of a grapefruit peel, he's always busy and twinkling. To obtain the grapefruit, we had to negotiate a narrow concrete wall, ford a stream, cross a scorpion infested milpa (corn field), send older brother Umberto up the 40' tree, and then run home since the fruit was "borrowed." Eaten with salt, it was delicious.

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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.