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5th Annual Wixaritari Tatie Kie Indigenous Festival (Huitchol)
by James Hunter |
 This will be the forth of five annual festivals planned for Puerto Vallarta and held at Plaza Caracol from March 1 to 15.The Wixáritari are an indigenous ethnic group of western central Mexico, living in the Sierra Madre Occidental range in the Mexican states of Nayarit, Jalisco, Zacatecas, and Durango. They are best known to the larger world as the Huichol, a name the Spanish conquistadors used to describe them, however, they refer to themselves as Wixárika ("the people") [Wir_ar_ee_ka] in their native language. These people are often seen and easily recognized in and around Puerto Vallarta by their distinctive elaborately and colorfully embroidered traditional manner of dress. Most Wixáritari are here in the city making or selling their traditional art as their sole means of support for their community next to subsistence farming. Beyond these important and necessary forays into modern life to sell their art, the Wixáritari are a very private people, preferring to keep to themselves as they struggle to maintain their centuries-old traditional ways of life. But and each year the Wixáritari make an annual pilgrimage to the seaside to make offerings to the sea. For the fourth year, they have invited the public to be pat of their annual traditions. This is what makes this annual festival so exciting. Come and experience a taste of life among the Wixáritari, their food, their music, their dance, and best known of all, their remarkable and vividly colorful art. Much will be on display and for sale. The sampling of Wixárika art will be on display in Plaza Caracol daily from 10:00am to 9:00pm, with traditional and regional music beginning at 6:00pm. During the weekend, there will be performances of their most important rituals. |
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