El venado acariciando las ofrendas

The back is inscribed and signed: "El venado acariciendo las ofrendas hecho por Santos M. de la Torre de Santiago y familia" (The deer caressing the offerings, made by Santos M. de la Torre de Santiago and family).

A deer stands at the center, with a scorpion above it, a candle at the right and flowers around it. In the Ruta Wixárika guide of Mexico's Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH), the deer, maxa, is the "Animal sagrado que abrió el camino a Wirikuta" (sacred animal that opened the way to Wirikuta), in the semi-desert of San Luis Potosí, and its figure "aparece representado en danzas, cantos y ofrendas" (appears represented in dances, songs and offerings).

Art of the Huichol Indians (1978) shows scorpions drawn the same way, with claws and a curled tail, embroidered along a clothing border from San Andrés ("Note scorpions, horses, birds, and plant forms."), and a "Votive bowl depicting deer hunt, man, and scorpions." Juan Negrín writes that beaded bracelets are "used as talismans; for example the design of a scorpion may be a prayer to guard against its sting." In People of the Peyote (1996), Denis Lemaistre writes that on the deer hunt the men leave votive gourd cups "decorated with wax figures of deer, crosses, snakes, scorpions, children", as "prayers for fertility, health, and wealth."

In the INAH guide, candles are "Elemento ritual básico. Representan la luz del Sol y la conexión con las deidades" (a basic ritual element. They represent the light of the Sun and the connection with the deities), and they are lit as offerings at the sacred sites along the route to Wirikuta.

The Facebook page Orgullo Wixarika, in a post it says a Wixárika speaker checked, writes that tuutú is the Wixárika word for flower, and that "para nuestro pueblo, una flor es mucho más que una planta hermosa: es ofrenda, mensaje, presencia espiritual" (for our people, a flower is much more than a beautiful plant: it is an offering, a message, a spiritual presence).