Navajo Memorial Day Basket - Joann Johnson (#111)
$1,995.00
Artist: Joann Johnson
Navajo Baskets
16" x 2 1/4" deep
Rounds: 30
The manner in which Navajo basket weaver, Joann Johnson, weaves light and color into her textiles is, simply, amazing. We believe Joann sees the world in a whole different manner than anyone else. The cool thing about that is she can share her vision with the rest of us through her baskets. Stand back and take a look, then tell us if your perspective is not positively affected.
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About the artist:
A fourth generation Navajo basket weaver, Joann Johnson has a passionate awareness of her heritage and history. Born and raised in Monument Valley, she has spent her life in the Navajo heartland, surrounded by the sacred mountains and monuments that tell the stories of her people's past.
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?
Wickerwork
The carrying basket is even less frequently seen than the water jar. tsizis (tsi, hair, and zis, or azis, a bag or pouch, from the mode of carrying it over the hair of the forehead) is used at present for gathering the hashkan, or yucca fruit, for syrup. The baskets are plaited of willow twigs much after the style of our own baskets, but have neither handle nor finished rim? More about this legend