Navajo Sky People Basket - Lorraine Black (#244)
$2,495.00
Artist: Lorraine Black
18 1/2" x 3" deep
Rounds: 33
Lorraine Black likes sand painting motifs and often incorporates them into her basketry. Maybe that is because of their healing powers, or maybe it’s because of the fine detail associated with this curative medicine. In either case, both these elements are apparent in her Sky People basket. Fine detail combined with careful weaving makes this an exceptionally interesting basket.
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.
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?