Navajo Yei Weaving - Luana Tso (#53)
$3,500.00
Artist: Luana Tso
Navajo Rug
39" x 60"
Luana Tso weaves representations of the Navajo Holy People on a grand scale. Many years ago Luana began making rugs featuring these supernatural beings in a large format, and has since become well known for her intricate depictions these mythological figures. Luana will turn 60 this year and has built quite a career weaving unusual and uniquely pleasing pieces such as this. Let's wish her happy birthday, and send a message to the gods asking that she be allowed to continue making her wonderful weavings.
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About the artist:
Luana Tso has had a dream for many years now, and it is woven into each one of her Navajo rugs. She has three sons, and for each she dreams of a college education. This bright hope for her children's future keeps her at her loom from eight to fourteen hours a day, weaving traditional patterns, all the while trusting that her efforts will develop a new tradition for her family: higher education. See full biography
Related legends:
Yei
Every creature, every aspect of nature has its holy people . . . . even the stinkbug. Sometimes you can see them, if only for an instant. They are represented, some of them, by colors: the blue sky, the evening dusk, the night these are holy people and one prays to them. There are iron people, crystal people, then the other rocks "and such people." There are dawn people, twilight people, air, thunder, and cloud people. One does not talk about such things in nature when they and their holy people are present.