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Sand painting, type of art that exists in highly developed forms among the Navajo and Pueblo Indians of the American Southwest and in simpler forms among several Plains and California Indian tribes. Although sand painting is an art form, it is valued among the Indians primarily for religious rather.
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Nov 23, 2020 · An Art of Healing: Navajo Sandpainting. The Navajo people are Native American tribe in the Southwestern United States. Most Navajo people now live in New Mexico and Arizona. Traditionally, the Navajo were largely hunters and gatherers. The tribe grew crops of corn, beans, and squash.
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Sandpainting as Art. Hosteen Klah is credited with being the first Navajo to present a sandpainting picture in a permanent art form. He wove a “Whirling Logs” design from the Night Way Chant into a textile (rug). He and his two nieces wove approximately 70 pieces over an 18-year span.
Today, many Navajos create "sandpaintings" with colored sand on glue-covered particleboard, a technique dating to the 1930s when a pair of white sign painters, E. George de Ville and his wife Mae Allendale, introduced the practice in Gallup, New Mexico.
Navajo Sandpaintings from the Navajo Reservation are the finest Sandpaintings of the Navajo today, and are found in Penfield Gallery of Indian Arts in Albuquerque.
Navajo Sandpaintings, also called dry paintings, are called "places where the gods come and go" in the Navajo language. They are used in curing ceremonies in which the gods' help is requested for harvests and healing. The figures in sand paintings are symbolic representations of a story in Navajo mythology.
