BackNavajo Mother Earth Father Sky Sandpainting Weaving - Luana Tso (#040)
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Navajo Rugs
Mother Earth/Father Sky
36" x 37"
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Mother Earth and Father Sky are two of the most recognizable deities in the Navajo culture. In the fall of the year Mother Earth is more in control of her surroundings, having moved the Sun to a more manageable, less harsh position in her domain. Luana Tso beautifully projects the myth and legend of her people in a fiber art format. Here is a master artist beautifully portraying age-old beliefs in magnificent artistic style.
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About the artist:
Luana Tso has had a dream for many years now, and it is woven into each one of her Navajo rugs. She has three sons, and for each she dreams of a college education. This bright hope for her children's future keeps her at her loom from eight to fourteen hours a day, weaving traditional patterns, all the while trusting that her efforts will develop a new tradition for her family: higher education. See full biography |
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Mother Earth, Father Sky
I have chosen
to focus on the "Mother Earth, Father Sky" sandpainting from the Male
Shootingway partly because it presents the most detailed depiction of the Navajo
heavens of the sandpaintings used today. In addition, since this sandpainting
can only be used on the final day of the ceremonial, it embodies the Navajo concept
of increase through accumulation. Chanters consider this painting to be a particularly
powerful one? More about this legend
Weaving
After the
medicine woman told the people about the prayersticks she told them that there
was a place in the underworld where two rivers crossed. It was called ni tqin'kae
tsosi, fine fiber cotton (Indian hemp). There were two persons who brought the
seed of that plant, they were spiders. They said that the people were to use the
plant instead of skins for their clothing. So this seed was planted in the earth? More about this legend
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