[Aztlan] Genitalia in ancient Jalisco and Nayarit cultures

[Dave]

The Huichol people of the mountains of Nayarit and Jalisco are among the 
least acculturated of the indigenous groups in Mexico.  The men 
traditionally dressed with just the long shirts until approximately 1900. 
Around that time a law was passed in Tepic requiring them to wear pants when 
visiting the city.  Huicholes have told me that they wore the shirts to mid 
or upper thigh length and had a shoulder bag or two hanging in front of them 
covering the crotch area to keep the shirt in place.   Lumholtz's book 
'Unknown Mexico'  has pictures, from the 1890's, of them dressed that way.

Dave Francis


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "michael ruggeri" <michaelruggeri at mac.com>
To: <aztlan at lists.famsi.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 17, 2009 9:20 AM
Subject: [Aztlan] Genitalia in ancient Jalisco and Nayarit cultures


> Listeros,
>
> If you click on my Ancient West Mexico art portfolio below, you will
> see depictions of men wearing shirts that come down to but do not
> cover the penis. This is a very common depiction in Nayarit art. And
> in the Colima art, you will see depictions of men with erections that
> are almost comical. What they represent, we can only guess at. I would
> venture that they represent the idea of fertility and village survival
> as a semi-religious concept. But the one of the warrior holding his
> penis in one hand and a weapon in the other certainly has modern
> connotations.
>
> Mike Ruggeri's Ancient West Mexico Art Portfolio
> http://tinyurl.com/al42js
>
> Mike Ruggeri
>
>
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