Shotgun

Metadata

Title

Shotgun

Created

1985

Type

Firearm

Description

Original object (physical):
Dimensions: 17 X 120 X 5 cm.
Technique in wood and metal

Description

19th century shotgun, with one-piece wooden stock and fore-end, it has rings to be carried on the shoulder. It is complete and does not show the manufacturer's mark.

It was donated to the Museum to bear witness to the armed confrontations between the Yaquis and the federal government in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They were first used in Mexico in the war against the Yaquis.

Subject

Colonization--Yaqui River Valley--Sonora (Mexico : State) | Mexico--History--1867-1910 | Military weapons--Mexico--History | Yaquis--History--Wars

Format

Still image / jpg

Spatial

Sonora , Cócorit

Temporal

1981 -1990

Is part of

Historical room, Museum of the Yaqui people

Provenance

Museum of the Yaqui people. Sinaloa and Obregon No. 200, Cocorit, Cajeme, Sonora

It has been part of the museum's collection since its creation in 1985.

Language

eng

Date

2021-12-14

Identifier

Web Catalogación Obregón 2016 - 2869
ISC-CGPC-MY-0055
RS-OM-MEY-55

Relationship

Rifle | Rifle | Rifle | Rifle | Pistol | Pistol | Juan Maldonado Waswechia "Tetabiate" | José María Leyva "Cajeme"

Contributor

Sonoran Institute of Culture
Casanova, Juan (photography)
Buitimea Flores, Teodoro; Ruiz Félix, José María (investigation)
Valencia, Carlos ; The Yaqui Pride Project (translation to english)

License

Creative Commons License
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Rights

Sonoran Institute of Culture

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