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José Criollo
Corpus Christi Headdress
c. 1980
San Rafael, Cotopaxi, Ecuador
wood, fabric, foil, lightbulbs, mirrors, glass jar, jewelry, plastic figures
45 1/4" H x 26" W
International Folk Art Foundation Collection, Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe
photograph by John Bigelow Taylor
© Museum of International Folk Art

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Señor Criollo continues to make Corpus Christi headdresses in the basic style of the earlier examples from the Pujilí/Latacunga region of Highland Ecuador where he lives, although the kinds of objects used in the decoration have changed. He is no longer able to get old reliquaries, so here he has utilized a homemade one, constructed from the bottom of a glass jar placed over a plastic image of Christ.






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