Navajo Humpback Yei Folk Art - Harold Willeto (#020)
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Humpback Yei
29" tall x 6 3/8" wide
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Harold Willeto Navajo Folk Art See all items in this categoryRelated legends:
Hunchback God
Hunchback
God (ya'ackidi') (P) is possibly so called because of the hump which represents
the black bag he carries on his back, or because he is a deified mountain sheep.
Matthews defines him as 'a god of harvest, a god of plenty, a god of mist.'
Stevenson says the hump is of clouds containing seeds of all vegetation. Sapir's
text has the hump made of rainbow? 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
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