Materials such as wax, beads, wool and cotton make ceremonial objects and offerings sacred. We do not know the meaning of the word wixarika, but we know that “huichol” is a Spanishized version of this term. The language spoken by the Wixarikas belongs to the branch known as Cora-Huichol, within the family of Yuto-Nahua languages. The Huichols, who live isolated in the western Sierra Madre between the states of Jalisco, Nayarit and part of Durango and Zacatecas, begin to express themselves artistically through their clothing and dress with incredible elegance.
The bead (kuka), for example, is a symbol of water; That is why it covers the inner surface of the gourds, which are the water containers par excellence. Observations that arose at the end of the 19th century, about certain types of Huichol ritual objects gourds (xukurite) and stone or wooden statuettes that represent deified ancestors, indicate that already at that time they used glass beads in their decoration, "it is There is no doubt that mollusk shells were used for this purpose before,” allows us to infer that the bead is not a material that has recently been incorporated into the art of the Huichol. The chronicle of Father José Arlegui, dating from 1737, describes the destruction of a Huichol ceremonial center where objects made with beads were found. Today, the bead is sacred among the Wixaritari “the bead means life.” These small colored beads are also compared to corn seeds, and are the object of ritual uses, which can be purification.
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