The pic is misleading in that it's of a tourist sculpture (loosely) based on figures from navajo sand paintings. Figures which as far as I know, are never traditionally represented in 3 dimensions, so it looks kind of like a Hopi kachina doll.
My introduction to Navajo sand paintings was the book Sand Paintings Of The Navajo Shooting Chant. The accounts of battle in the chant are so vivid, reading it was like watching an epic fantasy movie, like TLOTR trilogy played out in the sunny/stromy skies over Monument Valley.
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My introduction to Navajo sand paintings was the book Sand Paintings Of The Navajo Shooting Chant. The accounts of battle in the chant are so vivid, reading it was like watching an epic fantasy movie, like TLOTR trilogy played out in the sunny/stromy skies over Monument Valley.
- steve 5-31-2005 6:17 am