Navajo Spider Woman Cross Rug - Pauletta Deswudt (#003)
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Spider Woman Cross
24 3/4" x 17 1/4"
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Spider Woman
"Spider
Woman instructed the Navajo women how to weave on a loom which Spider Man told
them how to make. The crosspoles were made of sky and earth cords, the warp sticks
of sun rays, the healds of rock crystal and sheet lightning. The batten was a
sun halo, white shell made the comb. There were four spindles: one a stick of
zigzag lightning with a whorl of cannel coal; one a stick of flash lightning with
a whorl of turquoise; a third had a stick of sheet lightning with a whorl of abalone;
a rain streamer formed the stick of the fourth, and its whorl was white shell."? 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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