Navajo Spider Woman Vessel - Elsie Holiday (#232)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||
Spider Woman Vessel with Lid
Basket with Lid - 9 1/4" tall x 11 1/2" wide
Lid - 2 3/4" tall x 11 1/2" wide
Lid Circumference - 35"
Lid Opening - 10 3/8"
Basket - 8" tall x 11" wide
Basket Opening - 9 3/4"
Basket Circumference - 32"
We offer a 100% satisfaction guarantee on every purchase.
About the artist:
Considered one of the best Navajo basket weavers, Elsie Stone Holiday married into the famed Douglas Mesa family of weavers. Weaving baskets has become almost an addiction for her. "When I go two or three days without weaving I get anxious to get started again," she says. She weaves 12 hours a day, 5 days a week. "Sometimes I think, 'How long can this last?'", she wistfully states, but for now she is content with her art, finding immense satisfaction in creating premier quality baskets. See full biography |
See all items by Elsie Holiday
Related categories:
Navajo Baskets - Elsie Holiday See all items in this categoryRelated legends:
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
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? More about this legend
Add to Wish List:
To add to your wish list, you must be logged in.Twin Rocks Trading Post · P.O. Box 330 · 913 E. Navajo Twins Dr · Bluff,
UT 84512
Phone:
435-672-2341 · Toll-free
1-800-526-3448
Contact Twin Rocks Trading Post
Copyright © 2008 Twin Rocks Trading Post
Twin Rocks Home