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8 1/2 inch Navajo Ceremonial Basket - Kayla Black (#018)

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About the artist

Rarely does such a young weaver show so much promise. Kayla Black is a mere ten years old and already weaving baskets on a standard many will never reach. Much of the credit must go to her paternal grandmother, Mary Holiday Black, who took her in at a very young age and exposed her infant charge to the fine art of Navajo basket weaving. The process began with Kayla picking up the left over Sumac and stripping it into splits for her grandmother, this began at the ripe old age of three years old. Having a master weaver as a patient and loving tutor has fostered a basket weaving prodigy..

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Related legends

Navajo Basketry

Basketry is a woman's industry, which is also pursued by the nadle (he changes), hermaphrodites, or men skilled in the arts and industries of both men and women. Basketry, however, is not classified with textile fabrics (yistl'o), but with sewing (nalkhad). It is of interest also that, while the basket is in progress, the sewer is untouched and avoided by the members of her family?

Navajo Ceremonial Baskets
The Navajo wedding basket also reflects many values of traditional life and so often contains all six sacred mountains, including Huerfano and Gobernador Knob, though the size of the basket may determine the numher of mountains in the design. The center spot in the basket represents the beginning of this world, where the Navajo people emerged from a reed? More about this legend

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