BOY AND GIRL NAVAJO SAND PAINTING NATIVE AMERICAN FOLK ART VINTAGE
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:16327107 | Provenance: Fine Estate Find |
| Country/Region of Manufacture: United States | Artisan: Elaine Denetclaw Beyale |
| Tribal Affiliation: Navajo | Origin: SW |
BOY AND GIRL “SET” TWO SIGNED SANDPAINTINGS ORIGINAL, ONE OF A KIND SANDPAINTING BY Elaine D Beyale SUSPECTEDARTIST IS ElaineDenetclaw Beyale, NAVAJO TRIBE.EACH PAINTING IS AN 8" SQUARE SANDPAINTING THAT DEPICTS TWO YOUNG CHILDREN, A NAVAJO BOY AND GIRL HOLDING A SACRED EAGLE FEATHER TO SHOW HIS COURAGE AND THE GIRL HOLDING FLOWERS THAT BOTH WILL FOREVER HOLD IN THIER MEMORY. WONDERFUL SOUTHWEST DECOR. FOR YOUR WHIMSICAL CABIN, LODGE OR RANCH. KITSCH / V...INTAGE / USED. HOME DECOR IN GREAT CONDITION.Sandpainting’s are giftsfrom the Holy People. For the Díneh, or"People" as Navajos call themselves, sandpainting is a sacred healingart linked to the time of myth and memory. For good reason, one Navajo term forsandpainting’s means "place where the gods come and go. Once, those HolyPeople-First Man and First Woman, First Girl and First Boy, CornPeople, Snake People, and others-lived underground. When their Black World wasextinguished they moved to Blue World. When Blue World ended they went toYellow World. Then Yellow World died in a flood and First Man led them up areed to this, the Glittering World we Earth Surface People now inhabit. Theidea behind this sand painting between a boy and a girl is to help restorehózhó, an idea related to such concepts as "beauty, ""blessing, " "holy, " and "balanced."
