Model Canoe Item Number: Ni47 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Flat bottomed canoe slopes upward at each end. Carved out interior has seat at one end. Decorations formed by pressing glass beads into beeswax. White and orange around rim of carved out interior. White, blue, and yellow cross at one end. The interior has a yellow, orange, white, and blue human figure at end opposite seat. Four animal figures at bottom (dog, coiled snake, insect, and lizard?).
contemporary; tourist art; ritual
The Wixáritari are known to the larger world as the Huichol, however that is not the name they use to refer to themselves.