Our Lady of Cabeza is a Marian apparition and statue of the Madonna and Child, whose cult is centered at the Basilica of Nuestra Señora de la Cabeza, located in the Natural Park of the Sierra of Andújar, 32 km north of the city of Andújar, Spain. A Black Madonna, she is known popularly as La Morenita.
Our Lady of Cabeza
Statue of Our Lady of Cabeza near the Basilica of Nuestra Señora de la Cabeza.
A montería is an ancient type of driven hunt endemic to Spain. It involves the tracking, chase and killing of big-game, typically red deer, wild boar, fallow deer and mouflon. A number of "rehalas" along with their respective "rehaleros" will stir up an area of forest with the aim of forcing the game to move around and into the shooting pegs, where hunters will be able to fire.
Beaters return from a montería in Sierra Morena, 1913
A bear-hunting scene from the "Libro de la montería" of Alfonso XI
Hunted deers mounted on mules prior to being transported to the gathering at a montería in Andújar, 1958
Rehala hounds awaiting the start of a montería in Villadiego