Native wood carving of Virgin Mary, Encarnacion, Mexico, ca.1900 (CHS-690)

Native wood carving of Virgin Mary, Encarnacion, Mexico, ca.1900
Photograph of native wood carving of Virgin Mary, Encarnacion, Mexico, ca.1900. She stands with her hands templed in prayer, her head surrounded by halo rays of light. A decorative crown adorns her head, and several rings can be seen on her fingers. A robe with a floral pattern is draped around her body. At her feet, clouds and the faces of three cherubs can be seen.; "This statue is in a niche above one of the side altars in the parochial church at Encarnacion. This Madonna claims much respect and devotion being lowered once a year from its niche and carried at the head of a procession in the yard around the church. Sometimes the priests get upon their knees and move forward in this humble and penitent way. The people all follow and the procession moves along over the cobblestone pavement regardless of the comfort of knees or the welfare of clothes." -- Professor G. de Arcais.
Call number: CHS-690
Filename: CHS-690
Coverage date: circa 1900
Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Type: images
Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections
Format: glass plate negatives
Microfiche number: 1-224-
Archival file: chs_Volume90/CHS-690.tiff
Geographic subject (city or populated place): Encarnacion
Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Geographic subject (country): Mexico
Format (aacr2): 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 20 x 13 cm., 22 x 17 cm.
Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
Subject (adlf): religious facilities
Project: USC
Accession number: 690
Repository email: [email protected]
Contributing entity: California Historical Society
Date created: circa 1900
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): photographic prints; photographs
Legacy record ID: chs-m14587; USC-1-1-1-14122
Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Subject (file heading): Mexico -- Artifacts
Contributor: de Arcais, G., commentator
Subject (lcsh): Antiquities