A NAVAJO SAND PAINTING ON HIDE. c. 1920...

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A NAVAJO SAND PAINTING ON HIDE
c. 1920 painted in black, white, red, yellow, and two shades of blue, with a tobacco pouch guardian, flanked on either side by corn stalks in the lower register, a depiction of the sky from the Shootingway Chant*, featuring the horned sun, moon and winds as well as the four sacred plants, corn, tobacco, squash and beans in the center, and a rainbow guardian figure at top

Length: 61 inches

*Heritage would like to thank Tyrone D. Campbell for identifying this sand painting.


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