Navajo Humpback Yei Rug - Zonnie Gilmore (#2)

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About the artist:

Date of Birth: Unknown. Zonnie is a fine weaver that does mostly Sandpainting rugs. She is able to weave any style but all we have see out of her are Sandpaintings. She has been weaving since the age of around 10. Her age is unknown but she is at least in her 60's. She learned how to weave from her mother who is now deceased. She has taught her daughter Rita Reba and her son Herbert Gilmore to weave. Zonnie's weaving are nice even weaves with nice symmetrical pattern work. See full biography | See all items by Zonnie Gilmore

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Related legends:

Hunchback God
Hunchback God (ya'ackidi') (P) is possibly so called because of the hump which represents the black bag he carries on his back, or because he is a deified mountain sheep. Matthews defines him as 'a god of harvest, a god of plenty, a god of mist.'
Stevenson says the hump is of clouds containing seeds of all vegetation. Sapir's text has the hump made of rainbow? More about this legend

Yeis
Every creature, every aspect of nature has its holy people . . . . even the stinkbug. Sometimes you can see them, if only for an instant. They are represented, some of them, by colors: the blue sky, the evening dusk, the night these are holy people and one prays to them. There are iron people, crystal people, then the other rocks " and such people." There are dawn people, twilight people, air, thunder, and cloud people. One does not talk about such things in nature when they and their holy people are present. More about this legend

Weaving
After the medicine woman told the people about the prayersticks she told them that there was a place in the underworld where two rivers crossed. It was called ni tqin'kae tsosi, fine fiber cotton (Indian hemp). There were two persons who brought the seed of that plant, they were spiders. They said that the people were to use the plant instead of skins for their clothing. So this seed was planted in the earth? More about this legend

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