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Navajo Baskets
German Town
28"
This fabulous Germantown basket by Elsie Holiday was initially adopted from the trading post in 1996. After a long and happy relationship with its first owner, it has returned to us. The original purchaser moved to a much smaller retirement home and asked whether we would like to have it back. We readily agreed. It is now looking for a new home.
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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 Baskets See all items in this categoryRelated legends:
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?
More about this legendWickerwork
The carrying
basket is even less frequently seen than the water jar. tsizis (tsi, hair, and
zis, or azis, a bag or pouch, from the mode of carrying it over the hair of the
forehead) is used at present for gathering the hashkan, or yucca fruit, for syrup.
The baskets are plaited of willow twigs much after the style of our own baskets,
but have neither handle nor finished rim? More about this legend