CHAQUIRA THE PERFECT JEWEL Materials such as wax, beads, wool and cotton make ceremonial objects and offerings sacred. We do not know the meaning of the word wixarika,...
THE ORIGIN OF HUICHOL ART The origin of Huichol art lies in an ancestral tradition, the physical transcription of the images visualized by the Huichol shamans; induced by the...
BODY PAINTING OF THE HUICHOLES The contemporary body painting of the indigenous people of the Gran Nayar is an eminently ritual practice and, therefore, ephemeral. The body is decorated...