The Huichol Indians: a pre-Columbian culture in Mexico today
The Huichol Indians: a pre-Columbian culture in Mexico today
Scattered among the deep canyons and high plateaux of the Mexican Sierra Madre, the Huichol Indians have maintained, virtually intact, an ancient culture going back to preHispanic times. This culture has given rise to a highly original art of which "yarn painting" is an outstanding example. In these paintings, with their brilliant colours and pure lines, Huichol artists bring vividly to life the sacred world of their ancestors and their gods. Our cover is a reproduction of a yarn painting by the Huichol artist Juan Ríos Martínez, entitled Revelation of the Blue Deer.
This issue of the Unesco Courier also examines other aspects of Latin American culture in articles devoted to the deciphering of Mayan hieroglyphics and the bewitched reality of Haitian art.