Navajo Stained Glass Window Basket - Joann Johnson (#117)
$2,495.00
Artist: Joann Johnson
17 1/2" x 3 1/2"
Rounds: 32
Joann Johnson is highly adept at representing variations of light and color through her art of basketry. Years ago Joann was gifted a Kaleidoscope and the rest, as they say, is history. Joann also lives on the eastern edge of Monument Valley so visions of diffused and deflected light are not uncommon in her world. To view Joann's basket is to witness the dawn, dusk and versions of stained glass through her eyes.
About the artist:
A fourth generation Navajo basket weaver, Joann Johnson has a passionate awareness of her heritage and history. Born and raised in Monument Valley, she has spent her life in the Navajo heartland, surrounded by the sacred mountains and monuments that tell the stories of her people's past.
Related legends:
Wickerwork
The carrying basket is even less frequently seen than the water jar. tsizis (tsi, hair, and zis, or azis, a bag or pouch, from the mode of carrying it over the hair of the forehead) is used at present for gathering the hashkan, or yucca fruit, for syrup. The baskets are plaited of willow twigs much after the style of our own baskets, but have neither handle nor finished rim? More about this legend