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Native American art
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sandpainting
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n. 1 (context uncountable English) The art of pouring coloured sands and pigments onto a surface to make a temporary or permanent picture. 2 (context countable English) A picture of this kind.
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Sandpainting is the art of pouring colored sands, and powdered pigments from minerals or crystals, or pigments from other natural or synthetic sources onto a surface to make a fixed, or unfixed sand painting. Unfixed sand paintings have a long established ...
Usage examples of sandpainting.
And supposedly the trading post has an old Sandpainting weaving from the twenties, by Hosteen Klah.
So those who manufacture the sandpaintings for mass distribution will tell you it is all old nonsense at the same time as they are making sure at least one small part of each painting they turn out is inaccurate.
He could envision it clearly: the paleface sucker from Florida somberly questioning other Navahos about sandpaintings and medicine men.
Even so, over five hundred distinct and different sandpaintings are known.
We don't know if they did sandpaintings or not, but they made drawings on sheer canyon walls.
Unlike the angular abstracts of the sandpaintings, this was a full-figured human form, a life-sculpture of unsurpassed craftsmanship.
I don't mean to imply that we're not respectful of it, but sandpainting can be art in the pure sense as well as the basis for traditional medicine.