April 23, 2024
FINE YAQUI PASCOLA MASK by Jesus Rodriquez Munoz, c.1990s
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Yaqui Pascola Mask, circa 1990s. Artist: Jesus Rodriquez Munoz (Tuscon Yoeme artist) Medium: painted, carved cottonwood root, horse hair Size: (carved portion) approximately 5.5” wide by 10.25” high The Yaqui or Yoeme are Indigenous people whose ancestors originated in the valley of the Río Yaqui in the northern Mexican state of Sonora . Many Yaqui still live in their ancestral homeland. The Pascua Yaqui Tribe is based in Tucson, Arizona . Yaqui people live elsewhere in what is now the southwestern United States. The Yaqui religion, which is a syncretic religion of old Yaqui beliefs and practices and the Christian teachings of Jesuit and later Franciscan missionaries, relies upon song, music, prayer, and dancing, all performed by designated members of the community. They have woven numerous Roman Catholic traditions into the old ways and vice versa. For instance, the Yaqui deer song ( maso bwikam ) accompanies the deer dance, which is performed by a pascola (Easter, from the Spanish pascua) dancer, also known as a "deer dancer". Pascolas perform at religio-social functions many times of the year, but especially during Lent and Easter. The traditional Pascolas dance takes place in the community fiesta ramada. Pascolas, the "old men of the fiesta,” wear carved oval wooden masks with long tufts of hair such as this one. Free
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