jicara

Beaded bowls (jicara in Spanish, rakure in Huichol) evolved in this same manner.

Huichol Indians: their art and symbols 1997

Beaded bowls (jicara in Spanish, rakure in Huichol) evolved in this same manner.

Huichol Indians: their art and symbols 1997

In the first case, the offering is a jicara or gourd of some sacred drink

Animal Figures in the Maya Codices 1915

A girl sympathizing with him in his plight brought a jicara of bluish water.

The Underdogs, a Story of the Mexican Revolution Mariano Azuela 1912

It is the "xicalli" of the ancient Aztecs, changed to "jicara" by the

The Naturalist in Nicaragua Thomas Belt 1855

The hard thin shell of the fruit, carved in various patterns on the outside, is made into cups and drinking-vessels by the natives, who also cultivate other species of jicara, with round fruit, as large as a man's head, from which the larger drinking-bowls are made.

The Naturalist in Nicaragua Thomas Belt 1855

After about three miles, we came out on a small flat plain, probably alluvial, about twenty acres in extent, mostly covered with grass, with a few scattered jicara trees.

The Naturalist in Nicaragua Thomas Belt 1855

The jicara trees grow apart at equal distances, as if planted by man.

The Naturalist in Nicaragua Thomas Belt 1855

This led over undulating savannahs, with grass and jicara trees, and small clumps of low trees and shrubs on stony hillocks.

The Naturalist in Nicaragua Thomas Belt 1855

Savannahs, sparingly timbered, were next crossed; then we reached one of those level plains, with black soil and blocks of porous trachyte lying on the surface, which are swamps in the rainy season, and have for vegetation sedgy grasses and scattered jicara trees, cactuses and thorny acacias.

The Naturalist in Nicaragua Thomas Belt 1855