COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
Vigil, Max (American woodworker)
Creator role:
creator
Date display:
1934
Title:
Matraca
Title:
Penitente Matraca
Title:
Ratchet Noisemaker
Title:
Penitente Ratchet Noisemaker
Description:
Rectangular wooden box with handle extending through a hole off-centered in one long side. Inside the box, the handle attaches to a ratchet; a single piece of wood is held in place against the ratchet by a rubber band looped around pieces of twig on the outside of either side of the box.
Note Fr. Steele:
"Joseph Gurule, formerly a worker at Regis Jesuit Community, said that he knew MV in La Garita, Colo; appears as illustration p. 197 of Penitente Self-Government [Thomas J. Steele, S.J, and Rowena Rivera, Santa Fe: Ancient City Press, 1985]"|"Used as prototype for matraca in Denver Art Museum art-cart, 1986."|"See 'Some tinieblas Symbolism' appendix in Steele/Rivera" cited above.
Inscription:
on side in pencil: Un Credo al Gran poder De Dios / por Vida y Salud / del Hermano / Max Vigil / Marzo 29 / Aáo de Dios / Del 1934
Location name:
La Garita
Location name:
Colorado
Location name:
Saguache (county)
Materials display:
cut and carved wood (plant material), nails, rubber band, twigs
Material name:
wood (plant material)
Material name:
found objects
Material name:
organic material
Source name:
Thomas J. Steele, S.J.: The Regis University Collection of New Mexico and Colorado Santos.
Subject term:
Noisemakers
Work type:
noisemakers
Exhibition note:
Denver, CO: Denver Public Library, Sept-Oct 1988; Denver, CO: Museo de las Americas, winter-spring 1996.
Acquisition note:
1975
Accession number:
RU0030
Measurements display:
24.5 x 29.5 x 8 cm
Rights text:
IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED