ruperero (Hat)

Hats are part of everyday wear and are usually made of palm fiber, decorated with macaw and/or hawk feathers; can be decorated more elaborately to suit the occasion. Hats have now become part of the tourist art trade.

The Wixáritari are known to the larger world as the Huichol, however that is not the name they use to refer to themselves.

contemporary; tourist art; ritual

Hat made of thirty-one black feathers attached to string by folding the base of the quill and creating a loop for the string. The folded portion is wrapped with yellow and purple yarn. String of feathers fits over crown of hat (Ni32 a).