YUMARI – TARAHUMARAS 84

“The Cantador took the instrument, gives a few initial beats, begins his song with a kind of guttural intake, like a call for air and breathing-in, and starts his dance towards the cross, toing and froing, while very quickly the aspiration of the initial cry dies away giving way to this song from which only vowels emerged, almost a murmur, like the body’s monologue with the spirit that it was invoking, somnambulistic.” (Raymonde Carasco)