WordNet
n. a painting done by Amerindians (especially Navaho); made of fine colored sands on a neutral background
Usage examples of "sand painting".
Between the central patch and each of the outer areas was a circular sand painting.
And when I do get a glimpse of things shifting, it's like watching a beautiful sand painting in the second before the wind gets it .
Again, when you see a Navaho sand painting, there will be a surrounding figure -- it may represent a mirage or the rainbow or what not, but there will always be a surrounding figure with an opening in the east so that the new spirit can pour in.
In its place was something I didn't recognize at first, but quickly realized was a Navajo sand painting.
A fire in a firepit at the center of the chamber gave off thick smoke heady with incense, and a complicated sand painting had been laid out on the floor at the south side of the cave.
The fancy sewing is gone, and the sand painting, and most of the wood carvings.
Loushang is Medicine, her kite patterned like a Navajo sand painting even from where I see it underneath.