Paiute Butterfly Basket - Grace Lehi (#01)
$600.00
Artist: Grace Lehi
Paiute Basketry
7 1/8" x 3/4" deep
Rounds: 18
Here in Canyon Country we don't often see baskets from the San Juan Paiute. The reason is that Navajo Mountain is a fur piece from Bluff, and the trip can be difficult to navigate. This basket actually made its way across the Colorado River drainage twenty some odd years ago. Back then we purchased it from Grace Lehi and promptly put it away. It is now time to bring it back into the light and share it with others who have the same interest.
7 1/8" x 3/4" deep
Rounds: 18
Here in Canyon Country we don't often see baskets from the San Juan Paiute. The reason is that Navajo Mountain is a fur piece from Bluff, and the trip can be difficult to navigate. This basket actually made its way across the Colorado River drainage twenty some odd years ago. Back then we purchased it from Grace Lehi and promptly put it away. It is now time to bring it back into the light and share it with others who have the same interest.
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Related legends:
Navajo Basketry
Basketry is a woman's industry, which is also pursued by the nadle (he changes), hermaphrodites, or men skilled in the arts and industries of both men and women. Basketry, however, is not classified with textile fabrics (yistl'o), but with sewing (nalkhad). It is of interest also that, while the basket is in progress, the sewer is untouched and avoided by the members of her family?