Navajo Germantown Squash Blossom Basket - Elsie Holiday (#368)
$4,375.00
Artist: Elsie Holiday
Navajo Baskets
22" x 3" deep
Rounds: 35
Okay, whatever superlatives you want to apply to this six petal squash blossom basket by Elsie Holiday will be appropriate. Fantastic, unparalleled, amazing? Sure. When people see it in the trading post, they are actually taken aback by its beauty. The weaving takes their breath away. That, however, should come as no surprise. Elsie has been making the best contemporary Navajo basketry for years and years. It's hot, get it while you can!
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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 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?