Re: Navajo Sand Paintings

Lyn Dearborn (lyn@anchor.esd.sgi.com)
Mon, 7 Feb 1994 00:59:29 -0800

If you enjoy general culture reading, "Navajo Weaver and Shepherd" by
Gladys Reichard has some information on the Sand Paintings ... such as the
fact that they must be destroyed on the same day that they are completed and
other such taboos that affect Navajo craftsmen (and women). Gladys lived
with some Navajos for some time while she learned to become a Navajo weaver
(my simplistic synopsis) and there is a wealth of information on Navajo
Culture, in general, in her book.

lyn dearborn

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us
with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
-- Galileo Galilei

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