Maria Sabina Garzia
(1888 – November 23, 1985)

Maria Sabina Garzia was a Mazatec
medicine woman who lived her whole
life in a modest dwelling in the Sierra
Mazateca of southern Mexico.

Her practice was based on the use of various
species of native psilocybe mushrooms.

Oaxaca, Mexico
Gusmano Cesaretti May 1982

all photographs © 2008

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