Navajo Mosaic Pictorial Basket - Peggy Black (#284)
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About the artist:
One of the famous Douglas Mesa basket weavers, there wasn't much question about what Peggy Rock Black would choose to pursue in life. She was born into a family of weavers before she married into an equally talented family of weavers. See full biography |
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Navajo Baskets - Peggy Black See all items in this categoryRelated legends:
Eagle
Of all birds
in Native American mythology, the eagle is the most important as symbol, sacrificial
/ ceremonial presence, and ultimate predator/ warrior. The solitary mystery and
power of the eagle as perceived by the Indian was immediately grasped by the emerging
nation of the United States, and "borrowed" for its logo. More about this legend
Butterfly
Butterfly:
Due to the natural beauty of its wings, Butterfly is often considered vain. Yet,
in Navajo mythology, Butterfly brings the sacred flint to the hooves of the horse.
In the legend of the diety, Butterfly Boy was cured of his vanity by being lightning
struck with the axe of Rain Boy. After that, his head opened up and out of it
came the butterflies of the world. The perishable dust of Butterfly's wings is
sometimes thought to prove that such beauty is usually not durable. More about this legend
Dog
Sending of
the dog to Acoma as a messenger of the ceremonies; in a coyote like trick he undertakes
a test of eating thirty-two kinds of food and runs off with the presents given
in reward for his success. More about this legend
Horse
Johano-ai
starts each day from his hogan, in the east, and rides across the skies to his
hogan in the west, carrying the shining golden disk, the sun. He has five horses
a horse of turquoise, a horse of white shell, a horse of pearl shell, a horse
of red shell, and a horse of coal? 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
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
Four Cardinal Light
In addition
to the sun and moon, the seasons, and the constellations, the four cardinal light
phenomena constitute a fourth and final set of markers for the division of time.
As noted above, the four cardinal light phenomena are results of the sun's apparent
daily motion. These phenomena are the four directions and the times of day and
colors that are linked to them. A Navajo does not think of the east without envisioning
hayolkaal, Dawn, and the white color of the sky at this time of day? More about this legend
People/Diversity
Big Star makes peace between them with instructions that neither should return
to the wife and the admonition that there will always be different kinds of people
in the world snake, coyote, star people and that "they must make the best
of it."? 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
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