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Navajo Baskets
Sun and Moon
15"
What more can we say about the basketry of Elsie Holiday? Blending the Sun with the Moon, Elsie has brought together two of the strongest characters of Navajo culture into one basket. The Sun is young, wild and virile; while the Moon is older, wiser and more experienced. Together they represent the balance sought by all Navajo people. Clouds and rain; male and female; Sun and Moon; peanut butter and jelly; Elsie Holiday and baskets, some things are just meant to be together.
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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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