This well-documented work, beautifully illustrated with over 100 full color photographs of baskets, weavers, and related objects, details the history, origins, and meanings of these creations. Included are detailed color photographs of vintage and modern baskets, portraits of award-winning basket weavers and their work, a section honoring a new generation of Navajo weavers, tips about the etiquette and safekeeping of ceremonial baskets, in-depth interviews with Navajo medicine men, and colorful takes of Kicking Rock Man, Changing Woman, Monster Slayer, and their role in the origin of the baskets.
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Georgiania Kennedy Simpson traveled often as a child to Hopi, Zuni and Navajo lands with her father, a trader. She is now the owner of a trading post and art gallery, and has co-authored Collecting Authentic Indian Arts and Crafts and Turquoise Indian Jewelry
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Navajo Ceremonial Baskets: Sacred Symbols Sacred Space explores the importance of the cerimonial basket in Navajo culture. Including a wealth of gorgeous color photographs throughout, portraits of award-winning basket weavers and their creations, involved interviews with Navajo medicine men, enjoyable tales of legendary heroic figures who played a role in the origin of baskets, straightforward information from everything concerning etiquette and safekeeping of ceremonial baskets to techniques for making tight-sealing woven water jars, and much more, Navajo Ceremonial Baskets is a welcome, informative, and enjoyable addition to Native American culture collections.
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With over fifty years of collective experience in working with Navajo baskets, my brother-in-law, Barry, my husband, Steve, and I realized that even with all our experience, we knew little about the origin and usage of Navajo ceremonial baskets. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
jewel baskets, ceremonial basket, pitch baskets, sacred mush, basket artist, wedding basket, shell basket, basket designs, pitch pot, second basket, first basket, night chant, corn pollen Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ancestral Puebloan, June Blackhorse, New Mexico, Fringe Mouth, Simpson Family Collection, Changing Woman, Fire Dance, John Holiday, Georgiana Kennedy Simpson Private Collection, Monster Slayer, Peggy Black, The Visionary, Washington Matthews, Dennis Hathale, Evelyn Cly, Hubbell Trading Post, Mother Earth, Allison Billy, Twin Rocks Trading Post, Bureau of Land Management, Franciscan Fathers, Jim Copeland, Asdzáá Nádleehé, Father Sky, Harry Walters New!
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With over fifty years of collective experience in working with Navajo baskets, my brother-in-law, Barry, my husband, Steve, and I realized that even with all our experience, we knew little about the origin and usage of Navajo ceremonial baskets. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
jewel baskets, ceremonial basket, pitch baskets, sacred mush, basket artist, wedding basket, shell basket, basket designs, pitch pot, second basket, first basket, night chant, corn pollen Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ancestral Puebloan, June Blackhorse, New Mexico, Fringe Mouth, Simpson Family Collection, Changing Woman, Fire Dance, John Holiday, Georgiana Kennedy Simpson Private Collection, Monster Slayer, Peggy Black, The Visionary, Washington Matthews, Dennis Hathale, Evelyn Cly, Hubbell Trading Post, Mother Earth, Allison Billy, Twin Rocks Trading Post, Bureau of Land Management, Franciscan Fathers, Jim Copeland, Asdzáá Nádleehé, Father Sky, Harry Walters New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Archaeology of Navajo Origins by Ronald H. Towner on 4 pages
- Indian Basketry by George Wharton James on page 18, page 24, and Back Matter
- New Mexico (America the Beautiful, Second) by Deborah Kent on page 46, and Back Matter
- Navajo Medicine Man: Sandpaintings by Gladys Amanda Reichard on page 47, and Back Matter
- Native American Religious Action: A Performance Approach to Religion (Studies in Comparative Religion Series) by Sam D. Gill in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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