Navajo Three Necklaces Basket - Elsie Holiday (#376)
$3,125.00
Artist: Elsie Holiday
Navajo Basket
16" x 18" x 1" deep
Rounds: 24
Elsie Holiday has taken a rainbow of colors to make this figurative basket. Faces have become her forte, and we must face it, she is the best. When it comes to execution, there is none better.
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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?