1950's Hand Spun Wool Naslini Corn Rug (#34)
$850.00
Navajo Rugs
59" x 38"
To the Navajo, corn is the fruit of life. Images of the corn plant stand as a metaphor for connections to the past, present and future along with perceptions of the upward moving way. This fun and fluffy, 1960's era textile comes to us through a Nevada estate sale. It is completely hand spun and is accented with vegetable dyes. Navajo rugs don't get any earthier or homegrown than this.
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After the medicine woman told the people about the prayersticks she told them that there was a place in the underworld where two rivers crossed. It was called ni tqin'kae tsosi, fine fiber cotton (Indian hemp). There were two persons who brought the seed of that plant, they were spiders. They said that the people were to use the plant instead of skins for their clothing. So this seed was planted in the earth? More about this legend