Navajo Yei-be-chei Dancers Basket - Peggy Rock Black (#387)
$1,750.00
Artist: Peggy Rock Black
Navajo Baskets
17" x 2 3/4" deep
Rounds: 28
Peggy Rock Black has woven a basket portraying beings put upon this earth to counter sickness and disease. A gift of Talking God, the Yei-be-chei are called into action by medicine men familiar with the required ceremonies and songs. Patients ailing in mind or body can be brought back into harmony by these powerful practitioners. Peggy has placed a rainbow around her helpful healers to protect them from evil and negativity. The world is a better place due to the gift of Talking God and the homage paid to the big guy by the likes of Peggy Rock Black.
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About the artist:
One of the famous Douglas Mesa basket weavers, there wasn't much question about what Peggy Rock Black would choose to pursue in life. She was born into a family of weavers before she married into an equally talented family of weavers.
Related legends:
Ritual Ceremony
Various kinds of clay are used by the Navaho ceremonially and otherwise. Dlesh, white clay, is used as spice with foods, or in painting the masks. The fire dancers paint their bodies with it on the night of the performance? More about this legend