Navajo Solar Eclipse Basket Set - Elsie Holiday (#380)
$7,975.00
Artist: Elsie Holiday
Navajo Baskets
Set of 5:
Largest: 14" x 1 1/2" deep
Rounds: 22
Elsie Holiday has been studying solar eclipses lately. It is no surprise then that her latest weavings follow that theme. In this five basket set, Elsie shows us each phase if this sacred occurrence. This series is hot!
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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:
Moon
The Navajo say that "the moon was given to the whites . . . in the beginning of life on this earth." They reason that "it belongs to the white people" because it "has a nose and mouth with a face of a white man;" also it "is like the white people's skin, transparent." ? More about this legend
Sun
The morning after their arrival the sun rises as a red glare indicating danger. Pg. 206, Flint Way.
The attack proceeds, and they fight even in the village. Two of Sun's children are killed, and Sun rises red and trembling until the perfect shell discs in which they were dressed are recovered for him? More about this legend