Navajo Biil Dress Weaving - Nellie Dean (#02)
$4,375.00
Artist: Nellie Dean
Navajo Rugs
48" x 55"
Navajo weaver Nellie Dean, of Cove, Arizona wove this marvelous woman's manta. The design replicates a classic period of Navajo woman dress patterns with Puebloan influence. The natural indigo and cochineal colors are hand-dyed, as are the aniline colors. The white is completely natural. The warp and weft wool is from the Churro sheep.
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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