Navajo 19 Feathers Basket - Elsie Holiday (#400)
$1,875.00
Artist: Elsie Holiday
Navajo Basket
14 1/2" x 2" deep
Rounds: 24
It is said that birds of a feather flock together, that people with the same tendencies hang together. Elsie Holiday's baskets have that effect on folks, they want to be near her feather art. Elsie tells us that feathers keep her in constant contact with the higher powers and help her communicate with the Holy People. We feel Elsie's basketry is divinely inspired, so her connectivity must be effective.
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About the artist:
Considered one of the best Navajo basket weavers, Elsie Stone Holiday married into the famed Douglas Mesa family of weavers. Weaving baskets has become almost an addiction for her. "When I go two or three days without weaving I get anxious to get started again," she says. She weaves 12 hours a day, 5 days a week. "Sometimes I think, 'How long can this last?'", she wistfully states, but for now she is content with her art, finding immense satisfaction in creating premier quality baskets.
Related legends:
Feathers
Feather: As a common denominator the feather figures imortantly in Native American myth, method, and tribal practice. The feather is a metaphor for flight, a messenger to the spirit world. Feathers are used decoratively, as prayer symbols, and as designs of power. Attached to an arrow, the feather becomes the universal emblem of the hunt, of flight, of finding the mark? More about this legend