Magazine Articles

Article written by anthropologist Jay Courtney Fikes in conversation with Wixárika mara’akame, Catarino Carrillo. "In 1996 I made my first visit to the Huichol community of Tuxpan de Bolaños. There I began developing rapport with an eighty year old shaman who we will call Catarino. Catarino has been kind enough to share many details about his life, including the explanation (below) of how he became a shaman."

This article was written by Hope Mac Lean for The Origins of Huichol Yarn Painting in summer 2001. "The Huichol (wee-chol) Indians of Mexico produce brilliantly colored yarn paintings that depict myths and ceremonies from their traditional shamanic culture. The painthings` glowing colors and mystical symbolism are attracting the attention of growing numbers of coolectors around the world."