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Visions of a Huichol Shaman
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Visions of a Huichol Shaman (edit title/settings)

by Peter T. Furst (Author) (edit contributors)

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The brilliant visionary yarn paintings of the shaman-artist Jose Benitez Sanchez emerge transformed into two-dimensional form from fleeting, sublime visionary experiences triggered by the complex chemistry of the divine peyote cactus. Benitez's visions are of the Huichol universe in Mexico's... read more

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Several things immediately struck the Norwegian-born ethnographer Carl Lumholtz when he traveled among the Huichol, an indigenous people of the Sierra Madre Occidental (Figs. 1, 2), in the last decade of the 19th century.

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  1. Peter T. Furst (Author)

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