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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

an independent Mexico masks their vulnerability today. Indeed, the story to edge the Yaqui off their land and stake claims to the Yaqui River — considered sacred by Indigenous communities — is ...