Navajo Corn Yei Pictorial Rug - Betty Yazzie (#004)
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Corn Yeis
28" x 38 1/2"
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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
Corn
The Supernaturals
also warn him of taboos connected with the use of corn. It should not be cooked
until it is ripe nor eaten before it is fully cooked, or frost and floods will
damage the crop. In the "vigil of the corn" ceremony the corn is fed
with dried meat; if it were to be fed with corn it would thus consume itself,
just as feeding meat to the masks would cause men to eat each other. When giving
this warning Talking God refers to the time that ugly woman fed corn to the corn
with result that " the people starved and men ate the flesh of other men."? 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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