Navajo Cyclone, Wind and Stars Basket - Gene Johnson (#06)
$400.00
Artist: Gene Johnson
Navajo Basket
10 3/4" x 2" deep
Rounds: 19
The Navajo philosophy of nature upholding, guarding and protecting the earthly realm of humans is geometrically represented in this Gene Johnson basket. Images of cyclones, wind and stars surrounding and preserving the Navajo universe are dominantly displayed. Through his woven works of art, Gene is a humble yet clever ambassador for the Navajo tradition and culture.
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Navajo Core of the Universe
In the Beginning the People lived in several worlds below. Successively they emerged from them to a new world above. In the middle of this new world stood a great rock. Extending through all the previous underworlds and protruding above this one, it was the core of the universe, rooted in time and space. It was oriented to the four directions, and its sides glowed with their corresponding colors white on the east, blue on the south, yellow-red on the west, black on the north?
Cyclone, Wind, Stars
"Then they placed twelve big white cyclones (Niholtso) in the east under the edge of the world, and twelve blue cyclones (Niholtso-doklizh), under the edge of the world at the south, and twelve yellow cyclones (Niholtso-klitsoi) in the west under the edge of the world, and twelve black cyclones under the north. And these forty-eight cyclones are what hold the world up. They also sent all kinds of winds up to the sky to hold up the sky and stars."? More about this legend