DepartmentLatin America

Rukuri

NameVotive offering bowl

CultureHuichol

Datec. 1960

Place madeNayarit, Mexico, North America

Place madeJalisco, Mexico, North America

MediumGourd, glass beads, beeswax

Dimensions2 13/16 × 5 1/2 × 5 1/16 in. (7.2 × 14 × 12.8 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of the Girard Foundation Collection, A.1979.5.508

Object numberA.1979.5.508

DescriptionHalf gourd, hemispherical in shape, with interior covered in beeswax into which glass beads have been pressed. Designs of two animals, in colors of white, red, green, blue, yellow. Ke motif. Colors: red, white, blue, yellow, some translucent.