Peyote Visions

"Meet the Huichol. The Huichol have been doing this from time out of mind, and here is some of their art.

Time out of mind. In some of these yarn-images you will observe representations of the conquistadores of Coronado, who came among the Huichol 400 years ago and are still sung of in Huichol village myths. In others you will see Watakame, the farmer who survived a series of Job-like plagues and tribulations in the dark times long before even Coronado came, and whose body after death was dismembered, Osiris like, and rose up severally out of the earth as various medicine and drug plants. In still others you will see jet planes, anthropologists pith helmens, four-wheel-drive Toyotas, and - hey!- dope-seeking American hippies! Most of all, if you´ve ever done peyote, in these yarn panels you will see peyote."