Navajo Autumn Colors Basket - Alicia Nelson (#158)
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About the artist:
Young and vulnerable to other's opinions, Alicia Nelson has nonetheless learned to trust her own instincts, and this has served her well as she has gone from being an apprentice basket weaver to an artist in her own right. Alicia trained under her mother-in-law, the famous Mary Holiday Black, recipient of the National Endowments 1995 Arts Heritage Award and fellowship. Alicia is one of only an estimated two dozen Navajo weavers who incorporate pictorial images into their baskets. See full biography |
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Navajo Baskets - Alicia Nelson See all items in this categoryRelated legends:
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
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
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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