Carl Lumholtz (1851–1922) was a Norwegian ethnographer and explorer who, soon after publishing an influential study of Australian Aborigines, spent five years researching native peoples in Mexico. This two-volume work, published in 1903, describes his expeditions to remote parts of north-west Mexico, inspired by reports about indigenous peoples who lived in cliff dwellings along mountainsides. While in the US in 1890 on a lecture tour, Lumholtz was able to raise sufficient funds for the expedition. He arrived in Mexico City that summer, and after meeting the president, Porfirio Díaz, he set off with a team of scientists for the Sierra Madre del Norte mountains in the north-west of Mexico, to find the cave-dwelling Tarahumare Indians. Volume 1 focuses on the life and beliefs of the Tarahumare, as well as the natural history of this little-explored region. Volume 2 describes the society and religious practices of the neighbouring Huichols people.

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Product details
- Date Published: October 2011
- format: Multiple copy pack
- isbn: 9781108033602
- length: 1158 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 150 x 67 mm
- weight: 1.81kg
- contains: 419 b/w illus. 15 colour illus. 4 maps
- availability: Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
Table of Contents
Volume 1: Preface
1. Preparations for the start
2. A remarkable antique piece
3. Camping at Upper Bavispe River
4. A splendid field prepared for us by the ancient agriculturists of Cave Valley
5. Second expedition
6. Fossils, and one way of utilising them
7. The uncontaminated Tarahumares
8. The houses of the Tarahumares
9. Arrival at Batopilas
10. Nice-looking natives
11. A priest and his family make the wilderness comfortable for us
12. The Tarahumares till afraid of me
13. The Tarahumares physique
14. Politeness, and the demands of etiquette
15. Many kinds of games among the Tarahumares
16. Religion
17. The shamans of wise men of the tribe
18. Relation of man to nature
19. Plant-worship
20. The Tarahumare's firm belief in a future life
21. Three weeks on foot through the Barranca
22. Resumption of the journey southward
23. Cerro de Muinora, the highest mountain in Chihuahua
24. On to Morelos
25. Winter in the High Sierra
26. Pueblo Viejo
27. Inexperienced help
28. A glimpse of the Pacific from the High Sierra
29. A cordial reception at San Francisco. Volume 2:
1. Reception at San Andres
2. Name and history of the Huichols
3. Another excursion
4. Trip to Bastita
5. Votive bowls
6. The first census of the Huichol country
7. Our procession excites the wonderment of the Mexicans
8. Return to the Sierra
9. A satisfactory meeting with the principal men
10. Practising self-control
11. Huichol gods
12. How to become a shaman
13. Native authorities, civil and ecclesiastical
14. Pablo and I separate
15. Getting ready for the great Hikuli feast
16. Leaving the Huichol country for the coast
17. On the road again
18. Archaeology versus theology
19. Oriental rain-cloak
20. A mound of metates
21. Arrival in the country of the Tarascos
22. Antiquities
23. Paracho
24. Tribal name of the Tarascos
25. Zacapu
26. Uruapan, 'The Paradise of Michoacan'
27. In the city of Mexico again
Conclusion
Appendix
Index.
Author
Carl Lumholtz