This is a delightful collection of Yaqui folklore, illustrated
with line drawings which invest Mexican folk-art motifs
with quaint atomic-age cheerfulness.
The Yaqui are part of the Southwestern Native American culture-group,
and live in the Sonoran desert on the west coast of northern Mexico,
opposite Baja California.
The stories here are a mixture of ancient folklore blended with
Mexican Catholic themes.
Coyote and other zoomorphs walk in the same
cycle of tales with figures such as Jesuschristo (who figures in several
comic stories) and Columbus (who appears briefly as a villan).
