Dona Manuela's Hat

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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 Wixarika (Huichol) woman, Dona Manuela, wearing a ceremonial hat with raptor feathers and rimmed with small metal dangles. Worn for the annual Wixarika (Huichol) pilgrimage to Wirikuta (Wiricuta), in Nayarit, Mexico.
Vita Rose Narrative: Doña Manuela shares her small rancho with chickens, a burro, and her great grandson Guillermo. Her husband Domingo had been dead for only a few months when her grandson brought her the two-week-old infant, covered with sores and crying continually. She nursed him back to health, at times going without food herself to buy the baby powdered milk. The miracle of renewed life was mutual. Doña Manuela's ceremonial hat is crowned with raptor feathers and rimmed with small metal dangles whose music brings her mind back to the Gods. Doña Manuela is a treasure to her family as she holds the mysteries of the old ways embedded like jewels in the matrix of the Huichol language, partially or totally lost to younger generations who live in the mestizo community.

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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.