Navajo Changing Woman Basket - Elsie Holiday (#374)
$3,750.00
Artist: Elsie Holiday
Navajo Baskets
16 1/2" x 18 1/2" x 1 1/2" deep
Rounds: 23
The Changing Woman theme has been good to Elsie Holiday. Maybe this is because the divinely depicted goddess is based on totally positive energy. Changing Woman has the resourcefulness to absorb negative energy and redistribute it in a positive manner. Now that would come in handy! Elsie also has the ability to create something visually stimulating from raw vegetation, another gift from Mother Earth. Elsie hopes her depictions of Changing Woman will help others realize the honor and respect our worldly hostess requires to survive.
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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:
Navajo Changing Woman
These four visit Changing Woman in her home in the west and see how she changes her age and form as she passes through doors at each of the directions. She decrees her gifts to earth people Cloud, rain, pollen, dew and gives them prayersticks. She tells them that now "there is no meanness left" in her : however First Man and Woman who went east are mean, and from them will come epidemics, colds, and coughs to be cured by offerings of white corn?