In the Mayo and Yaqui communities, Pascola ritual dancers wear wooden masks during traditional ceremonies. Starting Saturday, Oct. 26, those masks, which hold deep ritual significance, will be the ...

These pascola masks are familiar objects for Tucsonans who have attended a “deer dance” or other ceremonies in Old Pascua Village or other Yaqui settlements. They are worn by the ceremonial ...

A mask can be as revealing as concealing ... When I went to shoot some rituals in the Yaqui community [in Sonora], I couldn't do them. My assistant, who was a Yaqui, carried a religious cross ...

The Yaqui had fled Mexico’s Sonora state after ... which often feature public dances with deer heads and masks and massive parades through the streets. “That’s when the people got together ...

The sacred waters of the Yaqui tribe in the northwestern Mexican state of Sonora have dried up after decades of overexploitation, unequal water distribution and drought. This poses serious threats ...