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Pueblo Otomi (Mexico)

Native American

The band
A reported flag

See also:

The Band

Indigenous nation of Mexico, mostly in the States of Altiplano Region (Hidalgo, Mexico, Queretaro, Puebla, Veracruz, San Luis Potosi, Guanajuato, Tlaxcala and Michoacan). Between 90 and 300 thousands.

The word "pueblo" here is Spanish for (in this case) "people" or "nation", not the English exonym of Spanish origin for the unrelated Zia and Hopi peoples of the southwestern U.S.: The Otomi area is 1500 km to the southeast.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 26 May 2024

A reported flag

image located by Valentin Poposki, 1 September 2019
redrawn by António Martins-Tuválkin, 14 April 2024

The flag is the seal of the pueblo on a blue-orange-green field.
Chrystian Kretowicz, 12 January 2011

I think the source for this flag report was https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bandera_otom%C3%AD.png one of three very similar images at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Otomi_flags showing two slightly different flag designs, or two stages of the same flag proposal.

I could not find this flag elsewhere other than the quoted sources, apparently only these two single-post weblogs: http://wwwotomisecundarianagoya.blogspot.com and http://etnia-otomi-jymmie.blogspot.com, and even there only as standalone flat images, and not in actual cloth use on the shown photos of Otomi cultural activities.

Both shown variants of this flag are ~2:3 light blue over orange over light green horizontal tribands (with some variation of shades in the three images shown; I attempted a generalization), each of these there stripes separated from the next by a thin white stripe. In one of the variants (reported above) is centered overall a circular emblem (diameter roughly half of the flag’s height) with a wide white rim of the same thickness as the white stripes, bearing the inscription "Mʼu̱i Nximhai" arched at the bottom and set in black serif capitals. The disc itself is light blue, as the top stripe, and bears an orange 8-pointed star divided by very thin white lines into 8 parallelograms. The geometry of this star shows right angles alternating with acute ones and therefore has 4 symmetry axes, just like a windrose, not 8 symmetry axes, as a fully regular starry octagon has. The star is charged with a small dark green roundel changed with five light grey smaller discs set in cross, the four outer ones partly obscured by a thick golden yellow edge around the dark green roundel; everything outlined in thin white contours.

The other variant of this flag show an eagle one the middle emblem. Not sure if it’s worth to have an image of it as of now, given the scarce documental support for its very existence.

See also: Fictitious Otomi flags
António Martins-Tuválkin, 12 April 2024