Catalogue of Wixarika material collection in France's Musée de L'Homme

France’s Musée de l’Homme (Museum of Mankind) is a museum established at the height of France’s colonial empire that incorporated a broad study of the study of human and natural sciences, and a section on ethnography. It holds a collection that is perhaps unique - along with that of the Chicago Museum - of Wixarika cultural materials. The majority of these objects come from a collection brought to the Museum of Natural History at the end of the 19th Century by French ethnographer, Léon Diguet. A few other pieces  came from various collections: some brought by Auguste Genin, acquired by the Museum in 1958; 29 objects, mainly clothing, purchased by Guy Streeser-Pean from the Museo de Arte e Industrias populares in Mexico; finally, a yarn painting given to the Museum in 1961. These materials have now been relocated to the current Musée du Quai Branly in Paris.

Here we share a PDF of the 1963 catalogue of the Wixarika collection in its original French.