He typical costume of Nayarit corresponds to the clothing of the Huichol culture, or as they prefer to be called: wixárikas. Most of these descendants of the Aztecs live in the Sierra Madre Oriental.
This town, after resisting the Spanish invasion, still strives to keep its culture alive and viable, maintaining a reverent and symbiotic relationship with nature.
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This is demonstrated in the use of peyote, focal point for their ceremonies, and in their colorful beads and threads.
The crafts of this indigenous group are highly valued, especially their embroidery and beads. In recent times his art has been developed for commercial purposes. However, their best pieces are, generally, for personal use.
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Brief description of the typical costume of Nayarit
The typical costume of Nayarit, both male and female versions, is made by the Huichol women, who have the reputation of being the best weavers in Mexico.
This ethnic group still practices the art of weaving in waist looms, creating designs largely abstract but loaded with much symbolism for this culture.
Even those whose figures are recognized - such as corn, flowers or animals - are an individual representation of myths, stories, analogies and metaphors.
Thus, the Huichol garments are not only elements to cover the body, but another way of expressing oneself.
Women
The female version of the typical Nayarit costume is quite simple, compared to its male counterpart. This comprises an embroidered blouse and skirt.
It also includes a mantle embroidered with flowers that serves to cover their heads and a quechquemitl as a complement.
The quechquemitl is a triangular garment with a central opening that in pre-Hispanic times was reserved for the goddesses of fertility, or for certain women of the nobility who identified with these deities.
On the other hand, men and women wear accessories of chaquira very characteristic as rings, bracelets and necklaces. The designs have delicate colors, are elegant and their themes resemble that of embroidery.
mens
Men wear more elaborate attire. All of its garments are decorated with beaded embroidery and brightly colored threads: the open shirt on the inside of the sleeves (quartz), the trousers (pants), the cape (turra), the girdles that hold the cape and the backpack that crosses his chest.
They use symmetrical designs loaded with symbolic, mythological and magical elements. For example, a zigzag may represent a lightning (associated with rain). These embroideries are, at times, so profuse that they do not allow to see the white fabric in the background.
On the other hand, the strips are woven in loom of waist, and on them they take a narrower strip of those that hang very small blanket bags. The backpacks are also wool or blanket.
The other accessory they usually wear is the hat. In their confection, palm leaves are woven by hand, then decorated with colored stamens or bird feathers.
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