Navajo Feather Dance Basket - Peggy Black (#211)

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A beautifully woven basket created around Navajo myth and legend, Peggy's basket depicts the Yei'i or Holy People, created by supernatural powers to help, protect and heal the Navajo people. The central, multi-colored, star like image is fire. Fire is associated with creation and is considered to be cleansing, it also represents security and life. The blue tabs with black step formation tops and rainbow sides with white Yei'i figures represent feathers. Feathers provide the opportunity to ask blessings for yourself, loved ones, or others in need. By prayerfully asking the Holy People to bless the feather and then offering the feather to the fire, a message is transferred to the Yei'i. If the proper respect and humility are presented, the Holy People (shown encircling the basket), arrive to grant the wishes and desires of those requesting help. The red, white and green stripes depicted under each Yei'i represent supernatural movement and project a guardian relationship with everyone involved.

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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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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