Sacred Colors of the Huichols
By pressing bright yarn into beeswax, Mexico´s Huichol Indians depict myths as old as the ancient ancestors they worshipncestors
Portfotlio by Fred Strebeigh, April /May, 1979.
"The images have the crude ferocity of ancient mythology: warriors brandish their weapons at fleeing victims; immense deities loom over their worshipers: otherworldly beats roam fantastic gardens.
Produced by pressing brightly colored yarn onto waxed wooden panels, these images indeed have their sources in centuries-old tradition. But the art in which they appear, practiced by a small group of México´s Huichol Indians and known as yarn painting, is in fact the product of a unique collaboration between the descendants of an ancient culture and the world of modern anthropology."
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