BackNavajo Geometric Vessel - Elsie Holiday (#281)
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Navajo Baskets
Geometric Vessel
8 3/4" tall x 6 1/4" wide
Opening - 5" wide
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Woven vessels were once utilitarian in nature, they were used to store...(more)
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...dried fruit, grain and valuable objects. In this day and age such things seem totally unnecessary; they have been replaced by mass-produced items created without thought or artistic expression. With Elsie Holiday, nothing could be farther from the truth. Elsie is one of the most creative and expressive basket weavers in the history of the art, and this vessel proves it.
About the artist:
Considered one of the best Navajo basket weavers, Elsie Stone Holiday married into the famed Douglas Mesa family of weavers. Weaving baskets has become almost an addiction for her. "When I go two or three days without weaving I get anxious to get started again," she says. She weaves 12 hours a day, 5 days a week. "Sometimes I think, 'How long can this last?'", she wistfully states, but for now she is content with her art, finding immense satisfaction in creating premier quality baskets.
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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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