Navajo Mother Earth/Father Sky Basket - Lorraine Black (#229)
$2,500.00
Artist: Lorraine Black
Navajo Baskets
19" x 3" deep
Rounds: 33
Mother Earth and Father Sky are the two most powerful and influential deities in Navajo culture. Lorraine Yazzie Black has chosen to depict this wondrous couple in her culturally based weaving. Mother Earth is depicted in natural tones, with sacred plants upon her breast and rainbow bars placed about her being. Navajo deities travel on rainbows, so they are prevalent in this basket. Father Sky is decorated with star patterns and an image of the Moon, his alternate ego. Lorraine has finished her weaving with an attractive herringbone stitch. This dynamic duo suit each other well, the balance is complete.
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About the artist:
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:
Mother Earth, Father Sky
I have chosen to focus on the "Mother Earth, Father Sky" sandpainting from the Male Shootingway partly because it presents the most detailed depiction of the Navajo heavens of the sandpaintings used today. In addition, since this sandpainting can only be used on the final day of the ceremonial, it embodies the Navajo concept of increase through accumulation. Chanters consider this painting to be a particularly powerful one? More about this legend