Navajo Whirlwind Polychrome Basket - Elsie Holiday (#399)
$4,500.00
Artist: Elsie Holiday
Navajo Basket
18" x 6" deep
Rounds: 32
This basket design originated from a photograph of Yellow Feather, a Maricopa Indian woman. The original image was likely taken in the late 1800s, and featured Yellow Feather posing with a wonderful weaving perched on her head. When Elsie Holiday saw the photo, she knew she would recreate the basket. In her precise style, Elsie has done exactly that and once again created wonderment. You can never go wrong acquiring an Elsie Holiday basket.
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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:
Whirlwinds/Breathing
After the bow and arrows of lightning were returned to the Sun, Hasjelti and Hasjohon came to First Man and First Woman and asked them what they thought about all that had happened. "What will take place now will be your plan," they said. "Yes," answered First Man and First Woman, "Now it must be our plan. We will think about it." The Sun brought a turquoise man fetish and gave it to Yol gai esdzan, the White Bead Woman? More about this legend