Lumholtz in the Sierra Madre
The Norwegian explorer Carl Lumholtz spent about five years between 1890 and 1898 among the peoples of north-western Mexico, ten months of it with the Coras and Huichols. He published Symbolism of the Huichol Indians with the American Museum of Natural History in May 1900. In Unknown Mexico (1902) he describes god’s eyes among other peoples of the western Sierra Madre. At Pueblo Viejo, a village he calls mainly Aztec and much mixed with Tepehuanes, when a child was a year old the parents fasted with a shaman, a god’s eye and four arrows were set east of a fire, and the shaman puffed tobacco smoke over the god’s eye and the child. Among the Coras, whom he calls akin to the Huichols, a shaman made a god’s eye for him as a prayer for his health and life.
To verify: What Lumholtz’s 1900 memoir Symbolism of the Huichol Indians says about the Huichol god’s eye (sikuli), and on which page; A MexConnect article’s statement that Lumholtz linked the Huichol god’s eye with children at a feast of the green squashes, read in full
