Comunidad Indigena de Zitakua, Nayarit, Mexico, c. 1990
Yarn pressed into beeswax on plywood.  With black aluminum frame. 
(23 1/2" x 23 1/2" , 60cm x 60cm).  Framed dimensions:  24" x 24" x 1".  

Provenance:  Current owner purchased c.1994 from Mark Lang, the collector who provided the 31 José Benitez Sanchez (father of Eliseo Benitez Sanchez) paintings now in the collection of the University of Pennsylvania Museum, documented in the book Visions of a Huichol Shaman by Dr. Peter Furst (2003).  It was purchased from artist in approximately 1990.

The text written on the back of the painting has been (badly) translated as follows:
"Here we see the sacred _ the world of our gods who were sent by our founder goddess "Takutsi Nakawe" who from the first moment our first world was established. She had to carry out to redesignate the four cardinal points in which she existed as power before _ the flood. Therefore her bastion of power established the four cardinal points and there with control and power is first established the representative center of our birth and after it the four cardinal points. To the snakes gods guardians of the holy places. For the _ of we the Huichols and carry the tradition and culture of our ancestors."

Undetermined artist - Madhubani, Bihar, India
1975
Ink and paint on paper
(30" h. x 22" w. )

Unknown Artist - Madhubani, Bihar, India
Late 20th cent.
Ink on hand-made paper
(30" h. x 22" w. )

Gurupada Chitrakar - West Bengal, India
c.2007
Water-based paint on paper
(17 1/2" h. x 12 1/2" w. )

Paptachitra Story Scroll attributed to Montu Chitrakar - West Bengal, India
Late 20th cent.
Water-based paint on paper with fabric backing
(28" h. x 11" w. )

Comunidad Indigena de Zitakua, Nayarit, Mexico, c.2000.
Yarn pressed into beeswax on plywood, with wood frame on back
(24" x 24" , 61cm x 61cm).   Signed on back by artist in Spanish and Huichol, with written description in rather difficult to follow Spanish.  Current owner purchased in Puerto Vallarta from Roberto Flores, c. 2000.

1973
Oil, ink and shellac on plywood. Original black wood frame by artist.
(43" h x 25 1/2"w)
Puchased directly from the artist while the owner lived in Lagos, Nigeria from 1973 to 1975.

Huichol yarn painting by
Jose Benitez Sanchez,
Nayarit, Mexico, c. 2000
Yarn pressed into beeswax on plywood
(24" x 24")

Huichol yarn painting by
Jose Benitez Sanchez,
Nayarit, Mexico, c. 2000
Yarn pressed into beeswax on plywood
(12" x 12")