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Various Sizes - Matted Prints
The Navajo tradition of rug weaving is among the most beautiful and ancient forms of New World artistic expression. Long before the Europeans came to this country, the native peoples of the Southwest were creating their wonderous textiles.
According to legend, it was Spider Man who first instructed the Navajo how to make a loom from sunshine, lightning, rain, rock crystal and shell and Spider Woman who taught them how to weave. Hence my portrait of a Navajo elder displays a few symbols of nature's original weaver, the spider. These symbols appear as the spider bracelet made with spiderweb turquoise and the "Spider Woman" crosses on the Germantown saddle blanket in the background.
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Various Sizes - Matted Prints
The Navajo tradition of rug weaving is among the most beautiful and ancient forms of New World artistic expression. Long before the Europeans came to this country, the native peoples of the Southwest were creating their wonderous textiles.
According to legend, it was Spider Man who first instructed the Navajo how to make a loom from sunshine, lightning, rain, rock crystal and shell and Spider Woman who taught them how to weave. Hence my portrait of a Navajo elder displays a few symbols of nature's original weaver, the spider. These symbols appear as the spider bracelet made with spiderweb turquoise and the "Spider Woman" crosses on the Germantown saddle blanket in the background.
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