Description: A Guide to Navajo Sandpaintings provides the best introduction to the religious images created by Navajo medicine men as part of traditional curing ceremonies. These carefully prescribed designs depict ancient Navajo gods and heroes to whom medicine men appeal to help restore their patients to harmony. Every shape and color has to be just right lest irremediable harm come to medicine man and his patient. Although many ancient sand paintings designs and their accompanying chants have been lost to time, others remain a vital part of Navajo religious practice and have emerged as a dynamic art form. Navajo artists now incorporate heroes, gods, traditional design icons, and landscape features from their homeland into stunning, contemporary. In A Guide to Navajo Sandpaintings, noted Native American arts authority Mark Bahti describes the history and development of this healing art. For each of the more than sixty individual sand paintings included, Bahti provides the legend from which the design originated. He also explains how contemporary artists honor the traditions of their elders while breaking new ground for this fascinating art form. This book is part of a large collection from the estate of an avid collector. This book has been carefully stored.
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Signed: No
Ex Libris: No
Book Series: Historical
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Item Length: 11 in
Original Language: English
Intended Audience: Ages 9-12, Young Adults, Adults
Inscribed: No
Edition: Revised Edition
Vintage: Yes
Personalize: No
Type: Novel
Era: 1970s
Item Height: 9 in
Personalized: No
Features: Flexi Bound, Illustrated
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Item Weight: 10 oz
Item Width: 0.5 in
Publisher: Rio Nuevo Publishers
Book Title: Navajo Sandpainting Art
Publication Year: 1978
Topic: Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies, Native American
Number of Pages: 32 Pages
Language: English
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Art, Social Science
Author: O. T. Branson, Mark Bahti, Eugene B. Joe
Format: Trade Paperback
