Green Turtle Navajo Basket - Jonathan Black (#052)

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Jonathan Black, the sixth son of Mary Holiday and Jesse Black, is married to Alicia Nelson. Jonathan is the reserved type. As individuals, and as a couple, they are two of the most dynamic and inspired contemporary Navajo basket weavers. See full biography | See all items by Jonathan Black

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Turtle & Frog
This episode appears in four versions of the attack on the Pueblo. It precedes the story of the main attack or constitutes this attack. The scalps which they obtain are, however, not the object of the suitor test. Frog and turtle kill the enemy or their young women. They have hidden in the "walled up water supply" which is drawn off to reveal them? More about this legend

Wind
Two other concepts essential to the Navajo view of an ordered, structured universe are those of nilch'i, or the Holy Wind, and the inner forms. After the Emergence onto the earth's surface, wind and inner forms were placed within all living things as a source of life, movement, speech, and behavior. Rather than being and independent spiritual agency that resides within the individual, like the Western notion of the soul, Holy Wind is a single entity that exists everywhere and in which all living beings participate. The concept of the Holy Wind has far-reaching implications? More about this legend

Cyclone, Wind, Stars
"Then they placed twelve big white cyclones (Niholtso) in the east under the edge of the world, and twelve blue cyclones (Niholtso-doklizh), under the edge of the world at the south, and twelve yellow cyclones (Niholtso-klitsoi) in the west under the edge of the world, and twelve black cyclones under the north. And these forty-eight cyclones are what hold the world up. They also sent all kinds of winds up to the sky to hold up the sky and stars."? More about this legend

Stars
The division of the year into twelve months may also have been superimposed on traditional Navajo concepts. This may be why only some of the months have specific constellations associated with them. Four of the months were said to have feather headdresses? 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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