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Navajo Wedding Design Basket

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Native Americana Start Price:100.00 USD Estimated At:200.00 - 500.00 USD
Navajo Wedding Design Basket
SOLD
50.00USDto c************s+ buyer's premium (11.50)
This item SOLD at 2015 Oct 02 @ 10:27UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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Tri-color with 3 rust colored bands, Wedding basket. 11.25" diam x 3" deep. Basket is in very good condition with traces of cornmeal in the weaving. Weft is natural and dyed sumac. The “Navajo wedding basket” is an important vessel. Not only used in wedding ceremonies, but many other types of ceremonials such as, girls’ puberty rites, and traditional healing ceremonies. Traditional ceremonial Navajo baskets always include an open pathway from the center to the periphery. Navajo basket-weavers refer to the opening in the basket’s design as “the way out.” It represents both the Navajo people’s exit from one world and reemergence to the next. In ceremonial practice, the gap in the basket’s design is always oriented to the east, the direction of sunrise, new beginnings and new life. During ceremonials the basket is filled with the appropriate corn meal mixture--from which each participant takes a portion to eat. Baskets that have traces of cornmeal in the weaving are very desirable, as they have been “blessed” with ritual use. City: State: Arizona/New Mexico Date: c. 1930's HWAC# 32013