Navajo Rainbow Man Basket - Elsie Holiday (#419)
$2,750.00
Artist: Elsie Holiday
15 1/2" x 17 1/4" x 3" deep
Rounds: 24
Elsie Holiday is constantly probing the outer envelope of creativity. That is, of course, the reason her baskets are so innovative. Super weaving aside, she has an extremely active imagination. Just take a look at “Rainbow Man” and you will readily agree there is no other contemporary Navajo basket maker who does work like this.
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.
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Related legends:
Rainbow People
Straight Rainbow People are pictured in a few sandpaintings of Mountainway Shooting Branch, Nightway, Big Godway, and Upward-reachingway. They do not differ from representations of People in general, except that they have red and blue bodies. Bent, curved, or Whirling Rainbow People are found in sandpaintings for Beautyway, male Shootingway, Nightway, Mountainway, and male Plumeway. This last one shows four Rainbow People with their bodies curved not quite to a right angle, something like the eight slightly curved Rainbow People of Beautyway? More about this legend