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Belt of bags
Huichol men, living in the mountains of western Mexico, are among the most spectacularly dressed in the world. For ceremonial occasions, they wear elaborately embroidered garments with as many colorfully patterned belts, shoulder bags and belts of bags as their wives can create. Huichol women who have attained the status of master embroiderer or weaver wield spiritual power equivalent to that of male shamans in the Huichol religious view. Textile designs are often divinely inspired during dreams or peyote rituals and each with a specific protective or helpful power for the wearer. This embroidered belt of bags would be tied around the wearer's waist. Only three of the eight bags actually open at the top; the others are sewn shut. The functioning bags may be used to carry money, tobacco, and other sundries, but the bags primarily serve to connect the wearer symbolically to the outside world, and to create a spectacular sight at ceremonies. cotton, wool acrylic; embroidered plain weave, alternating
float weave
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