BackNavajo Long Walk Basket - Peggy Black (#348)
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Navajo Baskets
22" x 3 1/4
Rounds: 26
Using sumac harvested from local water courses, Peggy Black has woven a memorial to those Navajo people forced to leave their homeland in 1864. This triptych consists of a black weaving representing their decline into Bosque Redondo, a white weaving representing their emergence from the Bosque upon their release and a multicolored weaving representing the concept of hozho (balance and harmony) and living on their ancestral lands. In terms of Navajo historical significance, there is nothing more important than this chapter of their history. Peggy has captured the time in a monumental series.
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About the artist:
One of the famous Douglas Mesa basket weavers, there wasn't much question about what Peggy Rock Black would choose to pursue in life. She was born into a family of weavers before she married into an equally talented family of weavers.
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Wickerwork
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.
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Long Walk
Long Walk
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