Navajo Dispersing the Waters Basket - Peggy Black (#225)
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Dispersing the Waters
15"
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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. See full biography |
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Navajo Baskets - Peggy Black See all items in this categoryRelated legends:
Great Flood
Great Flood:
Most tribes have a flood story similar to the one in the Bible. Water, in the
legends, is a primary world, a preworld, one that gives birth to the present one.
Through the energy of water, man is forced or driven to rise to a higher plane.
In many origin stories, The People are (as in the biblical tale) indifferent to
their plight, and thus only the worthy, the "listeners," men, animals,
birds, and insects, are brought up into the next world? More about this legend
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 legend
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