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	Huichol Indian Art
		Huichol Indian Art from Huichol bead artists and yarn painters from Tepic, Mexico.
		Sailing Traders, owned and operated by Harry and Ellen March, is dedicated to the promotion and preservation of Huichol Indian culture through the sale of their art.
		Since 1996, we have been working with six extended families of Huichol bead artists and several yarn painters who live in and around Tepic, capital of the state of Nayarit, Mexico.
	www.sailingtraders.com (450 words)

	The Huichol Page
		The Huichols believe themselves to be "mirrors of the gods" and try to reflect this sacred vision of the world in the thoughtfulness and the highly disciplined actions they display towards their numerous creator and nature deities.
		The Huichol culture is in the throes of a difficult transitional period from a flourishing tribe in a once remote location to an accessible, and vulnerable, ethnic group nakedly exposed to a global audience.
		The premise of the Huichol Center is that it is entirely possible to provide the Huichols with the opportunities, technical skills, and problem solving abilities they need in order to interface with the world around them while at the same time protecting their traditional culture and way of life.
	www.thefarm.org /charities/huichol.html (1497 words)

	CSP - 'A Brief History of the Native American Church'
		Huichols follow strict rules when they pilgrimage to collect the sacred plant in the high desert nearly 400 kilometers northeast of their homeland.
		Huichol religion parallels Christianity in that the Creator, out of compassion for his people, subjects himself to the limitations of this world.
		The Aztec are the cultural cousins of the Huichol, and their word peyotl or peyutl denotes the pericardium, the envelope or covering of the heart.
	www.csp.org /communities/docs/fikes-nac_history.html (1751 words)

	NOVICA - Collectibles - Huichol Art (Mexico)
		Huichol culture is guided by pre-Columbian shamanic traditions linked to ceremonies performed in their storied past.
		The "Jicuri" (peyote) is the centerpiece of Huichol ritualism, revered for its curative properties and its ability to enlighten the one who partakes of it.
		The Huichol people regard the sun, which they call Tatata, as their divine father, for he is believed to be the source of life.
	www.novica.com /art/collectibles/huichol-art-mexico/index.cfm?c=148&l=3&si=1 (3549 words)

	Huichol Yarn Paintings \| Planeta
		The Huicholes descended from early hunter-gatherers, and may have been driven high into the Sierra by the Spanish conquest of Mexico in the early 1500's.
		The Huicholes manifest their religious faith in the art offerings they produce: backstrap weavings, beaded masks, prayer bowls, bundles of arrows decorated with feathers which carry the petitioners' prayers to the ears of the gods in the heavens, and the yarn paintings recognized around the world and displayed in the finest museums and galleries.
		The Huicholes illustrate the rich heritage and wisdom that must be preserved to the benefit of world wisdom into the next millenium.
	www.planeta.com /planeta/98/1198yarn.html (1614 words)

	Huichol Indians Culture & Traditions, Huichol Yarn Paintings, Sacred Art Service & Shamanism Spiritual Healing
		Huichol life is a continuous cycle of ritual and devotional exercises designed to help them stay connected to the Ancient Ones-Tate Wari (Grandfather Fire), Takutsi Nakawey (Grandmother Growth), Kauyumari (our brother, the Deer Spirit), and Tatei Yurianaka (Mother Earth), among others.
		The Huichols say that during ceremony, they are inviting these spirits to come into the circle of life to be with them- to help empower them and their families, and to help the universe stay in balance.
		Huichol shamanism honors all of creation, especially the spirit of nature- the power of the animals, the winged ones, the minerals, and plants.
	www.shamanism.com /huichol.html (434 words)

	Soy Huichol
		The Huichols’ cooperative way of life is rooted in a native spirituality that is reflected in their intricate dress, diverse art forms, ancient shamanic practices, and mythical ceremonial traditions.
		The Huichol people are very protective of their cultural heritage and customs are known for resisting attempts of assimilation by governments and religious organizations.
		The Huichol culture is in a difficult transitional period—from being a flourishing tribe in a once remote location to an accessible and vulnerable ethnic group becoming increasingly exposed to a global audience.
	www.plenty.org /pb18_3/huichol183.html (1260 words)

	Huichol Cross
		From the Sierra Madre Mountains of Northern Jalisco, the Huichols are mountain people, descendents of the Aztecs who fled into the mountains of the southern Sierra Medre Occidental when news reached them of the final success of the Spanish invasion in 1521.
		It was not until two hundred years later that Spanish missionaries were able to reach the almost inaccessible Huichol pueblos; and even after a few Catholic churches were built, the natives continued to worship their own gods and have steadfastly clung to their ancient pagan beliefs.
		Huichol symbols are unlike those of any other Mexican tribes, and in all their rites the Huichols honor their tribal gods, many of whom are represented by animals.
	www.casamexicanafolkart.com /Religious_Arts--Crosses__p_4/Huichol_Cross/huichol_cross.html (495 words)

	Mythic Visions: Yarn Paintings of a Huichol Shaman (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Though Huichol people have been using yarn or string to convey prayers to their deities or to create protective amulets for centuries, "painting" with yarn is a relatively new art form.
		Despite the fact that peyote is not native to the Huichol heartland, it is essential to Huichol spirituality and cultural survival.
		Each year, small parties of Huichol people make a 300-mile pilgrimage to a desert in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosi to gather peyote, whose complex chemistry mediates their visions, when the plant is ingested.
	www.museum.upenn.edu /new/exhibits/huichol/about.shtml (840 words)

	PORTABLE LIGHT PROJECT - Huichol Information
		The Huichol (Wirrárica) are one of the few indigenous groups in Mexico to have maintained an active practice of Mesoamerican textile weaving, thatch and wood braiding traditions.
		The Huichol are a semi-nomadic culture, traveling (often on foot) 400 miles on annual pilgrimages to the Pacific, the Sierra Oriental, and to Sierra farm lands in the wet and dry seasons.
		To access electricity and electric light, for education or employment, the Huichol must leave the Sierra lands they own, on which their culture is centered, and relocate to settle in fixed townships outside the Sierra.
	www.tcaup.umich.edu /portablelight/huichol.html (740 words)

	Indian Sun Offers an Educational Article on the Huichol Culture.
		Taught by the “ancient ones”, the Huichol are obligated to care for the Earth by living a life of unity and harmony with their environment.
		To the Huichol, all souls are one and there is no distinction between the “life force” of the plants, animals and humans, they are all made of the same essence.
		Huichol Art is an exotic flower from ancient roots which allows us to peer into mirror of ourselves in order to discover something within which is pure and whole.
	www.indiansun.net /huichol.htm (653 words)

	Huichol
		The Huichol and Tepehuana are indigenous tribes living in the secluded and mountainous Sierra Madre Occidental region of the states of Jalisco, Durango, and Nayarit in Mexico.
		Huichol and Tepehuano folklore is by no means static.
		Many of the vivid designs and brilliant colors characteristic of these paintings were originally based on the visions produced by Peyote, an hallucinogenic cactus sacred to the Huichol and believed by them to offer a window to the divine.
	www.portofsandiego.org /sandiego_publicart/huichol.asp (446 words)

	The Huichol Indians
		The character of the Huichol as a group tends to be light, flexible, and humorous.
		The Huichol consider themselves sons and daughters of Tai and "feed" him cornmeal cakes, beer or tepache and water from sacred springs.
		As a guardian spirit she is one of the animals of primary importance in the shamanism of the Huichol.
	arizonaenergy.org /FireEnergy/huichol_indians.htm (1751 words)

	Ethnologue report for language code:hch (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Grimes, Joseph E. "The Huichol and modern medicine."
		Grimes, Joseph E. "Lexical functions as a heuristic for huichol."
		Grimes, Joseph E. "Lexical functions as a hueristic for Huichol."
	www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=hch (277 words)

	Huichol Religion
		For centuries the Huichols have lived as sedentary agriculturalists, surviving by cultivating maize, beans and squash, gathering wild plants, hunting, and tending domesticated animals.
		The apprenticeship of Huichol shamans is filled with challenges to the mind, body and soul: eating bird hearts, sucking lizard tails, grabbing rattlesnakes, entering the lion's den and running with the wolves.
		Once the Huichols leave the protection of their homelands and enter the world of twentieth century Mexico, they are like strangers in a strange land.
	www.thefarm.org /charities/huisurv.html (848 words)

	Huichol Yarn Paintings: The Commodification of Sacred Art (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Huichol artists whose art becomes their labor are simple re-creating and mass-producing depictions of cultural, historical, and symbolic art that holds more value for economic reasons than for spiritual ones.
		Yet, Huichols have a great need to create jobs for themselves inside their homeland, and the commodification of their art has been found to be the major way of creating those jobs and getting the cash they need to survive in the modern cash economy.
		Huichol art is now sold internationally which has shifted it from its once historical, cultural, symbolic value to a more marketable art in which its "sacredness" has been lost.
	www-mcnair.berkeley.edu /2002journal/MariaCruz.html (4340 words)

	Huichol yarn art from Mexico
		The Huichol Indians live in a secluded part of northern Mexico, and have thus maintained their traditional ways.
		For a thousand years, the rugged and remote terrain of the Huichol homeland has provided a pocket of isolation where the Huichols have survived, preserving their unique culture, religion, and art.
		They believe themselves to be "mirrors of the gods" and their art reflects a sacred vision of the world.
	www.coloresdelpueblo.org /Huichol_Art.html (216 words)

	Francisco Bautista - indigenous Huichol Bead & String Art
		The Huichol people are one of the few remaining indigenous Indian groups still living in Mexico in their traditional way.
		Unfortunately, due to the effects of the modern day conquest (missionaries, land invasion, tourism, loss of autonomy, poverty, disease, social ills, etc.) the Huichols are teetering on the ledge of cultural extinction.
		In purchasing art from a Huichol Indian, you not only gain a beautiful piece of art, you also assist a dying culture to stand on its own feet by sustaining self-sufficiency.
	www.mexicoetc.com /huichol.html (295 words)

	Huichol Summary
		The Huichol are originally from the State of San Luis Potosi to the east of the parts of Durango, Jalisco, Zacatecas and Nayarit in which the Sierra of the Huichol is found.
		The Huichol seek autonomy in their land, but have two governments, one native to the Huichol and one answering to the Mexican Government through "Municipal Agents" in the larger settlements.
		The Huichol language is an Uto-Aztecan language (Corachol branch) related to Cora.
	www.bookrags.com /Huichol (1989 words)

	Inside Puerto Vallarta Travel Magazine: Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
		The Huichol Indians live in virtually inaccessible areas of the states of Nayarit and Jalisco, straddling the Sierra Madre Occidental in an inhospitable region of about 15,000 square miles in scattered kinship settlements (ranchos).
		For the Huichol there are five directions, each of the cardinal points and the fifth is the spiritual, source of visions, power and enlightenment.
		A Nierika is called a mirror with two faces, and for that reason often both sides are covered with yarn designs and the hole in the middle is considered a mirror or often a small glass mirror is used.
	www.hypermex.com /html/abt_huit.htm (1025 words)

	Centro Cultural Huichol, Puerto Vallarta
		The immediate mission of founders Mariano and Susana Valadez—he a Huichol artist and community leader, she a U.S.-born anthropologist—is to ensure that the Huichol people endure, with their traditions intact and growing.
		This heritage belongs not only to the Huichol, but to the lost generations of indigenous peoples—Aleut, Yahi, Lacandones, and myriad others—who succumbed to European diseases and were massacred in innumerable fields, from Wounded Knee and the Valley of Mexico all the way to Tierra del Fuego.
		An adjacent gallery exhibits a treasury of Huichol art for sale—yarn paintings, masks, jewelry, gourds, god’s eyes—adorned with the colorful deities and animated heavenly motifs of the Huichol pantheon.
	www.moon.com /planner/puerto_vallarta/mustsees/centroculturalhuichol.html (406 words)

	Huichol Literature (Site not responding. Last check: )
		For the Huichols, this is the purpose of their sacred pilgrimage to the holy land of Wiricuta--to find their lives.
		For shamanic peoples such as the Huichols, the purpose in changing channels is not for escapism, to get lost in imaginary hallucinations that have no basis in reality.
		Parece ser que los ancestros de los huicholes mantuvieron una vida independiente, aunque sea parcialmente, de los grandes imperios mesoamericanos.
	www.indians.org /welker/huichol.htm (1213 words)

	Huichol Band of the Aztec Indians Art
		The Huichol artisans of the Huichol Community of Jalisco, Nayarit, and Tepehuano in Southern Mexico have only recently come down into the cities of Tepic, Guadaljara and Puerto Vallarta to form small communidads of bead artisans and yarn painters.
		There is no exact record of when the Huichol Community of Nayarit began creating incredible examples of Mexican yarnwork, but an event took place in the mid-1960s in the mountains of this coastal state that accelerated the artistic history of its people.
		A respected mara'akame (chief or shaman) within the Huichol community of the region became extremely ill and his son was forced to take him to a hospital.
	www.tribalmall.com /html/huichol_art.html (710 words)

	Landmarks Foundation - Projects, Huichol, Mexico
		The Huichol are an indigenous group with a population of about 20,000, who live in the Huichol Sierra in western Mexico.
		The Huichol ensure the active support of their numerous deities by making frequent visits to the sacred places where they are believed to live.
		Another threat to the continuation of sacred place-based Huichol religion is that many of the important sacred places are located outside of Huichol communal lands and are therefore threatened by development of superhighways, commercial agriculture, overgrazing by cattle and goats and an influx of tourists.
	www.landmarksfoundation.org /projects_huichol.shtml (752 words)

	Huichol (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Huichols are descendents of the Aztecs and are related to the Hopi of Arizona.
		Today the Huichols are representatives of a pre-Columbian shamanic tradition which is still functioning according to the ceremonies of their remote past.
		Of utmost importance to the Huichol is the sacred Peyote.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/cultural/mesoamerica/huichol.html (149 words)

	Huichol Indian Culture - Associated Content
		The Huichol Indians are an ancient tribe related to the Aztecs.
		The Huichol lifestyle is mainly agrarian; the principal crop is corn, which is called the "sacred maize." This kind of lifestyle keeps the people in close connection with nature, which is probably why so many of their deities are nature-related.
		The Huichols have no written language; all their traditions and beliefs have been passed orally from one generation to the next, principally through the efforts of the shamans, who say they keep these beliefs in their hearts.
	www.associatedcontent.com /article/57846/huichol_indian_culture.html (620 words)

	Huichol Indians of Jalisco, Nayarit and Durango . Cross stiched embroidery, a fantastic assortment of blouses, mens ...
		The actual number of Huichol is difficult to determine due to the inaccessibility of the mountainous territory in which they live (many peaks over 9000 feet) and the natural suspicion the Huichol have of strangers.
		The Huichol men wear embroidered muslin pants, a long shirt/smock that is wrapped around the waist and held in place by hand-woven belts, and a kerchief which may be embroidered or a combination of embroidery and felt.
		The Huichol believe that all difficulties are related to these spirits and they can only be mitigated by first understanding which spirit is offended and then asking the spirit for relief.
	www.mexicantextiles.com /grouppages/huichol.htm (371 words)

	Indigo Arts Gallery \| Huichol Indian Art 1
		Benitez was the subject of Mythic Visions: Yarn Paintings of a Huichol Shaman, the dazzling 2003 exhibit at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
		A central aspect of the religious life of the Huichol, and an essential rite of every shaman, is the peyote pilgrimage to Wirikuta, a remote desert region 300 miles away in the state of San Luis Potosi.
		The Huichol are known for the symbolic patterns of plants and animal spirits, which they lavish on their cross-stitch embroidery, xukuri beaded gourd votive bowls, and a variety of prayer objects and crosses woven of sticks, feathers, yarn and other materials, which they called nierika.
	www.indigoarts.com /gallery_huicholart1.html (1063 words)

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