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Unknown Mexicobook chapter 1973 • Lumholtz, Carl
Huichol • Middle America and the Caribbean > Northern Mexico
This document provides the earliest systematic study of Huichol culture, based on fieldwork conducted between 1894 and 1897, part of a larger project by the American Museum of Natural History to investigate the native peoples of Mexico. Detailed desc...The Huichol Indians of Mexicoarticle 1898 • Lumholtz, Carl
Huichol • Middle America and the Caribbean > Northern Mexico
This document contains observations on Huichol culture and society between 1894 and 1897. After two months among the neighboring Cora, the author settled in the Huichol town of San Andrés Coamiata. After initial difficulties winning the trust informa...Unknown Mexicobook chapter 1902 • Lumholtz, Carl
Tarahumara • Middle America and the Caribbean > Northern Mexico
This book was written on the basis of the author's personal observations while travelling and living among the indigenous groups of northwestern Mexico during a period totalling over five years. Lumholtz, a famous explorer and natural scientist of th...