Navajo Monument Valley Mittens Rug - Tabita Bitah (#031)
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"Monument Valley Mittens"
29" x 36"
Twin Rocks Modern
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The
Story of Twin Rocks Modern Weavings
In the late 1800's, Lorenzo Hubbell established his trading post at Ganado, Arizona. Shortly after the post was opened, Hubbell, along with traders like J. B. Moore and C.N. Cotton, became committed to helping improve the economic well-being of their Navajo trading partners through the development and expansion of rug and blanket weaving.
As part of his commitment to the Navajo people, Hubbell asked artists Eldridge Ayer Burbank, Bertha Little and others to paint small, simplified blanket patterns. The paintings; created in watercolor, conte crayon and oil, were then hung on the walls of the trading post to encourage local weavers to recreate the designs.
In 1993, Moab, Utah, painter Serena Supplee sat on her Navajo rug in the southeastern Utah desert searching for inspiration. It arrived in the form of a revelation directing her to paint a new style of Navajo weaving using bold tones, broad bands of color and motifs influenced by the geography and animal life of the Colorado Plateau. She immediately began painting watercolor images to illustrate her ideas.
A three-way partnership between Supplee, Twin Rocks Trading Post and several Navajo weavers has resulted in the latest style of Navajo weaving; Twin Rocks Modern. Lorenzo Hubbell's original inspiration has been reborn through the work of several individuals committed to pushing Navajo rug and blanket weaving to new heights and freeing the artists to create inspiring, innovative art.
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Then it was
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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
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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
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