• Results (46)
  • Search

Item Search

The item search helps you look through the thousands of items on the RRN and find exactly what you’re after. We’ve split the search into two parts, Results, and Search Filters. You’re in the results section right now. You can still perform “Quick searches” from the menu bar, but if you’re new to the RRN, click the Search tab above and use the exploratory search.

View Tutorial

Log In to see more items.

MaskNi66

Mask of roughly carved ovoid in light coloured wood. Painted lines arranged in matching geometric design on cheek areas in green, orange, dark red and yellow. Circular holes for eyes are placed close together, ringed by orange line with flecks of yellow. Squared nose flares downward from brow. Horizontal slit for mouth is ringed by a green line with evenly spaced flecks of dark red. Large chin area has dots and lines in same pattern as design on cheeks. Green brows descend towards temples. Except for nose there is no modelling of facial features.

Culture
Huichol
Material
wood and paint
Made in
Jalisco, Mexico and Nayarit, Mexico
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
PantsNi14

Cotton pants formed by two panels with crotch inset and a drawstring waist. The bottom of the pants have a cross-stitch decoration of three different horizontal bands alternating with a row of birds. First band has red, blue and yellow geometric design of triangles and diamonds separated by a zigzag line. On top are nine pink frontal birds with profile heads facing left, each bird has floral crown, an octagonal body and a triangular tail. Second band has stylized orange flowers, alternating directions, joined by an angular green line, dark blue line border at top and bottom; yellow profile birds above band has purple outline. Third band has a double row of blue flowers attached by blue stems to a yellow and red ribbon, flowers alternate with red double scrolls, green line border at top and base; purple frontal birds with heads facing to side on right are above band. Red cloth band at hem of each leg.

Culture
Huichol
Material
cotton fibre and synthetic dye
Made in
Jalisco, Mexico and Nayarit, Mexico
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
ShirtNi41

White shirt with embroidery. The shirt has a v-neck, long cuffed sleeves and open sides. On the upper front and back are feline motifs surrounded by a square geometric border in red, orange, yellow and blue on white ground. On the lower front and back are rooster motifs above a geometric border. The hem is edged with orange trim. On the sleeves are bird motifs and geometric borders. The cuffs are edged with blue and orange trim. The inside is unlined.

Culture
Huichol
Material
cotton fibre
Made in
Jalisco, Mexico and Nayarit, Mexico
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
CarvingNi73

Form is of graduating in size, having seven 'steps' on each side. Front and back surfaces are flat. Mirror with metal edging and outlined with two and a half rows of black beads at centre front. Small burnt circles outline form. On front, two crossing diagonal lines above mirror, two semi-circular lines below mirror, and a triangle on the base. On back, central line with paired lines curving away on either side. Beads, some loose and others strung together, are pressed into beeswax to form decorations: red and yellow cross above mirror, red and yellow diagonal line below mirror, three black rows below mirror on right, yellow bordered by red on left of base, black and red cross at centre base, five circles down each side, and four circles down centre back. Pink and yellow yarn pulled through hole at centre top, knotted with ends hanging free. Two red and two yellow pompoms on cord wrapped below mirror.

Culture
Huichol
Material
metal, glass, silver alloy metal ?, synthetic fibre and wood
Made in
Jalisco, Mexico and Nayarit, Mexico
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
MaskNi65

Mask with roughly ovoid light coloured wood, tapers slightly to chin. Facial features asymmetrical, with a long thin nose, bulbous end, and flattened top. Almond shaped holes for eyes, horizontal slit for mouth, perforated nostrils are black from burning. Hair is gathered into bundles and affixed horizontally, using adhesive wads to the following areas: above and below each eye, below nose, and fanned vertically over chin. Dark brown burned lines form geometric pattern on each cheek and along eyebrow area. Burned hole at each temple has length of single twist fibre cord strung between and knotted on back.

Culture
Huichol
Material
hair, adhesive and wood
Made in
Jalisco, Mexico and Nayarit, Mexico
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
ViolinNi63 a-b

Small roughly shaped wooden violin (part a) has scroll-like end, peg-box with four pegs, thin white cord looped and tied around one end of peg-box, fingerboard extending downward from peg-box, four metal strings with one end of each string looped around a peg and the other end passing through a hole in the tail piece, looping over the string and is twisting, on two strings at tail piece are metal circles with short yarn fringe. Small dark brown cleaver-like instrument attached to string on right by thin white cord. Small square piece of wood beneath end of tail piece. Looped and knotted palm fibre cord passes through holes in end of tail piece and around knob glued to bottom back. Two s-curved sound holes cut into sound board on either side of strings between fingerboard and tail piece. Sound board, sides, back and fingerboard are glued together. Bracket (part b) bow has 38 calibre gun shell cartridge at one end, cloth-strip wrapped and tied at end of cartridge, multiple strands of horsehair emerge from cloth and extend down length to pass through hole in opposite end and are knotted.

Culture
Huichol
Material
pine wood ?, metal, horse hair, cotton fibre, synthetic, palm leaf and adhesive
Made in
Jalisco, Mexico and Nayarit, Mexico
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record