Plaque Item Number: Ni58 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Small roughly molded upward curving clay plaque with uneven edges. Two large deer-like animals with legs at centre and heads at outside rim. Two small human-like figures between heads of animals. All figures made of beeswax.
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.