Jicaras - Lined with beads

Those familiar with the niceties of their handmade creations, understand that theirs is an ancient art: an art that counts, sings causes; an art that makes imagine dialogues, dances, confrontations, mysteries. For all your pictures, all his designs, by simple they may seem, have one virtue: telling stories. Today, the beadwork is sacred among Wixaritari. According to the Huichol, particularly women who know jícaras elaborate ritual, "the chaquira means life". These small colored beads are also compared with corn seeds, and are subject to ritual uses, which can be purification. In the community of Tuapuri, Santa Catarina Cuexcomatitan, for example, offerings, including candles (katirate), symbolically washed with soap and necklaces of beads, which are used as if they were a sponge. In this case, the accounts are associated with water droplets, symbolism that reminds us of the prehispanic chalchihuites.