Héctor García photographs of Holy Week observances among the Cora
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 92-6
name: label: Creator
content: García, Héctor, 1923-
place: label: Place
content: Mexico
topic: label: Topic
content: Holy Week
label: Topic
content: Rites and ceremonies
creator: label: Creator
content: García, Héctor, 1923-
culture: label: Culture
content: Cora
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Héctor García (b. 1923) is a photographer in Mexico City, Mexico.  Born and raised in an impoverished district of Mexico City, he first began taking pictures in the 1930s while participating in labor and student protests.  After traveling in Northern Mexico and the eastern United States, he returned to Mexico in 1946 and began formal studies in filmmaking and documentary photography. García worked as a photojournalist for Mexican and international publications and has received numerous awards for his cinematography.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Booklet
label: Extent
content: 80 Prints (silver gelatin)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1969
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Photographs found in Dr. Daniel Appleman's office. Transferred to the National Anthropological Archives by Robert M. Laughlin, 1991.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.92-6
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Booklets
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs made by Héctor García documenting Holy Week observances among the Cora in Western Central Mexico in 1969. They include images of a church, musicians, masks and mask makers, processions, and performers. Notes on some of the photographs relate them to descriptions in Fernando Benitez, Los indios de México, 1970. The photographs, mostly enlargements, may have been made for an exhibit. The collection also includes a photograph of an announcement, dated April 3, 1969, made by the governor of the Cora that concerns the observances and a booklet, Seman Santa entre los Mitos Indigenas Coras, that includes text from Benitez's book.