Contains several kinds of information from 8 named informants, including informants, including interpretations of sand paintings, stories and legends, accounts of ceremonies, and autobiographical ...

CORTEZ – The Navajo for generations have created sand paintings for use in sacred ceremonies. Diné artist Bento Yazzie has a unique take on the art form, but he struggles to describe what it’s like to ...

According to legend, the Navajo Indians learned art from their gods. The gods painted lasting pictures on buckskin, but they told the Navajos to make sand-paintings and destroy them as soon as they ...

Eugene Joe is a Diné sand art painter from Shiprock, New Mexico. Eugene comes from a family of sand painters and has spent 50 years as an artist. His work reflects his Diné culture and includes ...

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