9 1/2 inch Navajo Ceremonial Snake Basket - Lorraine Black (#191)
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The
ceremonial basket is an essential tool of Navajo medicine men. It serves as
a depiction of the heritage and lore of the people. Used as a sacred vessel,
the Navajo Ceremonial basket, is considered one of the most elementary symbols of the Navajo.
The white radiating center has ties to the emergence of the people from previous
worlds. Life and birth are depicted. The black- stepped protrusions into the
white portray the lower worlds and the rugged exit early natives made. Red
rings represent the joining of blood, marriage, children, and family as well
as the red earth on which the Navajo people walk.
About the artist:
Inspired by dreams, Lorraine Black's skills have literally elevated basket weaving to new dimensions. Lorraine Black's infectious laugh belies the serious magic her hands conjure up when weaving a basket. Unprecedented in her ideas, Lorraine's baskets are innovative and beautiful. Many of them make good use of texture through over-stitching and the addition of objects such as flint arrowheads or horsehair. See full biography |
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Related legends:
Snakes
In this same
version Monster Slayer administers Witch Medicine to participants in the ceremony;
snake is naked and has no place to put the medicine so he puts it in his mouth
for safe keeping, and that is why snakes are poisonous. 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
Navajo Ceremonial Baskets
The Navajo
wedding basket also reflects many values of traditional life and so often contains
all six sacred mountains, including Huerfano and Gobernador Knob, though the size
of the basket may determine the numher of mountains in the design. The center
spot in the basket represents the beginning of this world, where the Navajo people
emerged from a reed? More about this legend
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