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Set of 4 Navajo "Style" Wedding Baskets

Currency:USD Category:American Indian Art / Art - Baskets Start Price:100.00 USD Estimated At:200.00 - 400.00 USD
Set of 4 Navajo  Style  Wedding Baskets
SOLD
100.00USD+ (21.00) buyer's premium + applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2016 Dec 10 @ 12:07UTC-8 : PST/AKDT
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Set of 4 Navajo "style" wedding baskets. 1.5" diameter, 8.75" diameter, 7.5" diameter, 7.25" diameter. These baskets are all woven with wool yarns. Absolutely excellent condition. Navajo Baskets were traditionally used for both utilitarian, and ceremonial purposes. Baskets are made with the coil weaving method. Foundation for all baskets is the Navajo Wedding basket. wedding baskets have deep red and black in a star pattern. 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, as well as the ever-forward progression of individual human thought. 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. State: City: Date: FHWAC#: 40365