Carl Lumholtz, Instrumental (huichol indians)

“Carl Sofus Lumholtz, born in 1851 in Faaberg, Norway, dedicated 20 years of his life to the study of the towns in the Sierra Madre Occidental around diverse expeditions made to different sates throughout Mexico; the documents and testimonies of his travels are filled with botanical and zoological registrations, drawings, pictures, vocabulary, correspondence and annotations, chants and musical recordings, anthropometric measurements, and detailed descriptions of traditions with the economical, political, social and religious organization of the Indians he visited.”

“My stay amongst the huichol people was specially nourishing. These Indians were only known by a small group of mestizo traders, so I got to be the first European that was able to study them methodologically. The huichol country is hard to access, Mezquitic, the closest town, is 3 or 4 days away in a mule. The situation of these isolated Indians in the high steeps of the Sierra Madre has been their salvation.”

Instrumental, 48”

Xaweri in 6/8, son. Unknown origin.

Carl Lumholtz (huichol Indians), 1898

Source: Music and Chants for Light and Darkness

100 Years of Indigenous Testimony

Ruben Páez, The Unknown Lumholtz, University of Guadalajara, Mexico, 1990.