Navajo Pictorial Weaving of Coyote Stealing Fire - Lorraine Black (#197)

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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.

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Coyote Stealing Fire

A yellow bar going north to south and ending in white crosses intersects a white bar extending from east to west with yellow crosses on the ends. In this set of paintings these bars ending in crosses occur often. They probably typify a spiritual condition, as the cross symbol stands for the spirit element in other sandpaintings?

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Navajo 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?

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