Metadata
Title
Deer dancer
Creator
Hernández Correa, Julio
Created
2008
Type
Description
Objects: 1 light sculpture in cardboard technique and metallic internal structure; 1 stuffed deer head; 1 red scarf; 1 rosary; 1 wrap; 1 deer belt; 1 tenabaris; 2 deer rattles; 1 white handkerchief
Description
This full-body male figure fully represents the clothing of the Venado dancer. It is a dance of pre-Hispanic origin, where the dancer is characterized by representation related to man-nature to the beat of the rhythm of the musicians. He wears a deer head adorned with red ribbons on his antlers, these represent the flower known as Masa sai (San Miguelito vine), typical of the streams of the Yaqui nation.
The deer's head sits on a white cloak, which the man wears and covers him until he almost hides his eyes, to "see" only through the eyes of the animal. He adorns his chest with a mother-of-pearl and/or abalone shell necklace, representing the universe of the bawe ania (universe of the sea) and when he dances he does so to the rhythm of a pair of rattles known as áyam (bule).
The songs of the musicians known as Maaso bwikkleo (deer singer) are to nature, and they always do so in the purest form of the Yaqui language, while using two scrapers known as jirukiam and a large ba'a bweja (jícara). placed on a tray with water, at the same time a man known as a tampaleo plays the flute and the drum.
The Venado or Maso Yiiwame dance and the Pascola dance are the most representative of the Yaquis. By means of free mimicry and wonderful plasticity, the maso represents all the moments of the life cycle of this sacred animal, its attitudes of alertness, glimpse, breathlessness, fright, flight, defense and solace before the surrounding nature, with whose creatures it related in one way or another (Moctezuma, 2007).
Subject
Religion and culture--Sonora (Mexico : State)--Holy Week | Religious dance--Mexico | Syncretism (Religion)--Mexico | Yaquis--Social life and customs
Format
Still image / jpg
Spatial
Sonora , Cócorit
Temporal
2001 - 2010
Is part of
Music and dance room, Museum of the Yaqui people
Provenance
Museum of the Yaqui people. Sinaloa and Obregon No. 200, Cocorit, Cajeme, Sonora
Acquired for the reopening of the museum in the town of Cócorit. It is exhibited in the traditional festival room of the Museum.
Language
eng , yaqui
Date
2022-03-01
Identifier
WEB CATALOGACION OBREGON 2016-2514 | RS-OM-MEY-68
Relationship
scrapers | Gourd Rattle | Water Drum | Moth Cocoon Ankle Rattles | Deer Dancer Hooves Belt | Annual fiesta calendar | Deer dancer video | Pascola dancer
References
Moctezuma Zamarrón, José Luis. (2007). Yaquis: pueblos Indígenas del México Contemporáneo. México: CDI.
Contributor
Sonoran Institute of Culture
Rojas, Olavo (photography)
Ruiz Félix, José María ; Buitimea Flores, Teodoro (investigation)
Valencia, Carlos ; The Yaqui Pride Project (translation to english)
License

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Rights
Sonoran Institute of Culture




