Navajo After Midnight Basket - Lorraine Black (#250)

$750.00

Artist: Lorraine Black

Navajo Basket
12 1/2" x 1 1/4" deep
Rounds: 23

Lorraine Black tells us that "After Midnight," things can get crazy at squaw dances. People are less inhibited and more likely to let their hair down. They become a little more disheveled and, "Let's just say it," Lorraine tells us, "more out of control." We believe she is speaking from personal experience, but who's to say. Lorraine's basket points to the time when all the calm and collected people have left for home or gone to bed. Only the late night revelers remain, "and that" says Lorraine, "is when the real party begins."

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About the artist:

Navajo Basket Artist Lorraine Black

Inspired by dreams, Lorraine Black's skills have literally elevated basket weaving to new dimensions. Lorraine Black's infectious laugh belies the serious magic her hands conjure up when weaving a basket. Unprecedented in her ideas, Lorraine's baskets are innovative and beautiful. Many of them make good use of texture through over-stitching and the addition of objects such as flint arrowheads or horsehair.

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Related legends:

War/Squaw Dance
he so called war dance, extensively in vogue with the Navaho today, originated with the mother of the Slayer of Monsters and the Child of Water. For, it is said, when they had slain the monster yeitso, they carried his scalp as a trophy and hung it on a tree previous to reporting to their mother. While relating to her of the encounter with the monster they swooned and lay unconscious, whereupon, it is said, their mother prepared a concoction from herbs struck by lightning, sprinkled them with it, and shot a spruce and pine arrow over their bodies, thus reviving them? More about this legend

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