[Illustration: FIGURE 54. SAINT JOHN OF NEPOMUK (_San Juan Nepomuceno_). SIZE: 90.2 centimeters high. DATE: Early 20th century. ORIGIN: New Mexico, unidentified _santero_. LOCATION: South _morada_, left side of altar. MANUFACTURE: Carved wood, gessoed and painted; dressed in black gown and cap; white cotton cassock; artificial flowers; horsehair wig.] [Illustration: FIGURE 55. DEATH (_la muerte_). SIZE: 111.8 centimeters high. DATE: Fourth quarter of 19th century. ORIGIN: New Mexico, unidentified _santero_. LOCATION: South _morada_, left side of altar. MANUFACTURE: Carved and whitewashed wood; glass eyes and bone teeth; dressed in black fabric; rosary, bow and arrow.] [53] Interviews with Abiquiú inhabitants: Delfino Garcia in summer 1963 and Agapita Lopez in fall 1966. [54] Interviews with _penitente_ members at Abiquiú, summers of 1965 and 1967. [55] JOSÉ ESPINOSA, _Saints in the Valley_ (Albuquerque, 1960), p. 75. [56] DOMÍNGUEZ, _Missions_, p. 50 (ftn. 5), defines _varal_ and its customary use. [57] Ibid., pp. 107, 131 (ftn. 4), 167. [58] Ibid., pp. 121-123. [59] AASF, Loose Documents, Mission, 1680-1850, and Accounts, books xxxxv and lxiv. Also in Wills and Hijuelas, State Records Center, and in Twitchell documents, Land Management Bureau, both offices in Santa Fe, New Mexico. [60] WALTER HOUGH, _Collections of Heating and Lighting_ (Smithsonian Inst. Bull. 141, Washington, D.C., 1928), pl. 28a, no. 3. [61] STEPHEN BORHEGYI, _El Santuario de Chimayo_ (Santa Fe, 1956); also E. BOYD, _Saints and Saint Makers_ (Santa Fe, 1946), pp. 126-132. [62] GEORGE KUBLER, in _Santos: An Exhibition of the Religious Folk Art of New Mexico with an Essay by George Kubler_ (Fort Worth, Tex.: Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, June 1964). [63] A fuller discussion of the _penitente_ death cart and further illustrations are found in MITCHELL A. WILDER and EDGAR BREITENBACH, _Santos: The Religious Folk Art of New Mexico_ (Colorado Springs, 1943), pl. 30 and text. Relevant to this study is the death cart with immobile wheels recorded by HENDERSON, p. 32 [see ftn. 64], as having been used in processions before 1919. It is likely that this is the same cart described above in the storage room of the east _morada_ (Figure 22); it is important because its measurements and construction details are nearly identical to the death cart in the collections of the Museum of New Mexico, reputed to have come from Abiquiú. [64] ALICE CORBIN HENDERSON, _Brothers of Light_ (Chicago, 1962), p. 32, describes a _muerte_ figure: chalk-white face, obsidian eyes, black outfit. [65] E. BOYD, "Crucifix in Santero Art," _El Palacio_, vol. LX, no. 3 (March 1953), pp. 112-115, indicates the significance of this image form. [66] HENDERSON, pp. 13 (red gown, blindfolded, flowing black hair), 26 (red gown, bound hands, made for mission), and 43-46 (tall, almost life size, blindfolded, carried on small platform in procession from lower [east] _morada_, horsehair rope).