HUICHOL (pronounced Veetchol—a corruption of the native name V ishalika orITirarika, doctors or healers)  , a tribe of Mexican Indians living in a mountainous region on the eastern side of the Chapalagana river, Jalisco . Huichol tradition assigns the south as their place of origin . Their name of " healers " is deserved, for about one-fourth of the men are Shamans . The Huichols are in much the same social condition as at the time of the Aztec empire . They were conquered by the Spaniards in 1722 . For full description of the people and their habits see Carl Lumholtz, Unknown Mexico (1903) .