7.9" Huichol yarn painting, Mexican Folk art, Wall art, Mexican painting 20-237

Description

Dimentions
Length 7.88 inches (20 cms)
Width 7.88 inches (20 cms)
Thick 0.2 inches (0.50 cms)
This painting is entirely made with yarn applied with beeswax and resin over a sheet of plywood. Each painting requires many hours of work, starting from preparing the wood board, the wax, designing the painting to applying the yarn.
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The Huichol represent one of the few remaining indigenous cultures left in Mexico. They live in self-imposed isolation, having chosen long ago to make their home high in the mountains of the Sierra Madre Occidental, in Western Central Mexico.
Huichol Art dates back millenia. During spiritual rituals the shaman (know as marakame) have visions which are then transcribed into carvings, yarn art, bead art, pottery etc. Each image has spiritual meaning. The huichol tribe uses many simbols as representations of their deities and other things they deem sacred in their culture. Most common ones are the peyote, the deer and the snake.