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 ...

Pharisees, caballeros and Yaqui members line up to venerate the ... Heaven and deer and elements of the regalia, like masks, are called flowers or are associated with flowers.

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 ...

It was something that unfolded before him. He has become a documentarian of Yaqui identity, using art, storytelling and digital platforms to preserve history, share language and ensure cultural ...

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 ...

Corrections & Clarifications: In a previous version of this article, the last name of Yaqui Pride's Carlos Valencia was misspelled. Selina Martínez is part of a community of artists who ...

While a handful of Mexican bandits were kidnaping the retired Long Island butcher, Joseph Rosenthal (see above), over 3,000 Mexican Yaqui Indians were doing their best to kidnap that doughty one ...