Their main links to the modern world are through exquisite yarn paintings and bead art, which they have produced for at least 200 years. The Huichol (pronounced Wee-chol) number about 25,000.

Furst was working on his PhD in western Mexico in the mid-1960s when he discovered the vibrant yarn paintings of the Wixáritari people, commonly referred to as the Huichol. He was captivated by ...

This time her first clue came from a photograph of a yarn painting by a modern Huichol artist. It depicted a deer with dots on its body and attached to its antlers, just like the curious black-tipped ...

Of course, the immediate draw of Kawiteros is its art, which is inspired directly by the elaborate yarn paintings of the Huichol people, made from psychedelic colors, and all of which are tied to ...

The significance of such a web will not be lost on those who visit Cosmos within a ... his first encounters with Huichol tablas, an indigenous folk art that uses yarn to depict the celestial ...

The Huichol people of Mexico, a spiritual and tight-knit clan of shamans and artisans, create art like that of no other culture on the planet, working in all nature's brightest hues to produce ...

As a cultural insider by marriage to Huichol yarn artist Mariano Valadez, her contributions to the ethnographic record meticulously documents the life, spirituality, art, botany language and ...

He will have yarn paintings and jewelry as well as explain his culture and traditions. Valadez is part of a new generation of young Huichol Indians who have migrated to cities outside of their ...