Genuine Navajo Eye Dazzler Wool Rug by Native American Weaver Yellowhair - 2 x 3-1/2 2743-RUG
Genuine Navajo Eye Dazzler Wool Rug by Native American Weaver Yellowhair - 2 x 3-1/2
This Navajo Indian Rug comes from the heart of the Navajo Nation. This incredible hand woven Eye-Dazzler rug comes from the Tuba City/Grand Canyon area of North East Arizona. The Spider Woman herself couldn't make one as nice as this! This Navajo made rug was hand woven from genuine hand carded wool. It was woven by master Navajo Indian rug weaver Susie Yellowhair. She has a true talent for rug weaving and it shows here. The Dazzler design was created from white, red, tan, gray, and black wool yarn that was colored with dyes made from natural vegetation indigenous to the Navajo reservation. It is 43-1/4" by 26-1/2". Don't let this one pass you by!!!
Spider Woman/Spider Rock stands with awesome dignity and beauty over 800 feet high in Arizona's colorful Canyon de Chelly National Park. Windblown sand swirled and compressed with time created the spectacular red sandstone monolith. Long ago, the Dine' Indian tribe named it Spider Rock. Stratified, multicolored cliff walls surround the canyon. For many centuries the Dine' built caves and lived in these cliffs. Most of the caves were located high above the canyon floor, protecting them from enemies and flash floods. Spider Woman possessed supernatural power at the time of creation, when Dine' emerged from the third world into this fourth world. At that time, monsters roamed the land and killed many people. Since Spider Woman loved the people, she gave power for Monster-Slayer and Child-Born-of-Water to search for the Sun-God who was their father. When they found him, Sun-God showed them how to destroy all the monsters on land and in the water. Because she preserved their people, Dine' established Spider Woman among their most important and honored Deities. She chose the top of Spider Rock for her home. It was Spider Woman who taught Dine' ancestors of long ago the art of weaving upon a loom. She told them, "My husband, Spider Man, constructed the weaving loom making the cross poles of sky and earth cords to support the structure; the warp sticks of sun rays, lengthwise to cross the woof; the heralds of rock crystal and sheet lightning, to maintain original condition of fibers. For the batten, he chose a sun halo to seal joints, and for the comb he chose a white shell to clean strands in a combing manner." Through many generations, the Dine' have always been accomplished weavers, hoping to pay proper homage to the Spider Woman and her husband. |