Navajo Ceremonial Horses Yei Basket - Lorraine Black (#247)
$2,750.00
Artist: Lorraine Black
21 1/2" x 3" deep
Rounds: 36
Lorraine Black is Navajo through and through, and her baskets reflect her deep knowledge of the culture. Horses to the Navajo represent a great deal of freedom and mobility, and she has made that clear in this masterpiece. In this representation of a rainbow Yei and his horses, she blends an extraordinary amount of symbolism into a nicely designed and executed basket.
About the artist:
Inspired by dreams, Lorraine Black's skills have literally elevated basket weaving to new dimensions. Lorraine Black's infectious laugh belies the serious magic her hands conjure up when weaving a basket. Unprecedented in her ideas, Lorraine's baskets are innovative and beautiful. Many of them make good use of texture through over-stitching and the addition of objects such as flint arrowheads or horsehair.
Related legends:
Horse
Johano-ai starts each day from his hogan, in the east, and rides across the skies to his hogan in the west, carrying the shining golden disk, the sun. He has five horses a horse of turquoise, a horse of white shell, a horse of pearl shell, a horse of red shell, and a horse of coal? More about this legend