El Dios de la Peña
Tlacolula, Oaxaca,
Mexico
Wood,
gesso,
paint; glass eyes, wig; approx. 3 feet, 9 inches tall.
Christ at the buffeting
(seated
with head on right palm, right elbow on knee, mock scepter,
crown of
thorns,
white bloomers with red loincloth and cape).
The crown is woven of
hair
and silver into the basketweave pattern. Feet are burnished by
the
repeated
rubbing of the faithful. Sr. Jescas, our informant at
Tlacolula, says
it
is solid wood. The figure wears white cotton bloomers, a red
velvet
loin-cloth,
and a red velvet cape. On the bloomers and the lower part of
the
loincloth
the faithful have pinned scores of votive photographs,
amulets, and
other
objects. The treatment of the blood is perfunctory.
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