Navajo rugs a navajo legend credits a deity named spider woman with teaching them weaving.
Dine woman with rug.
In reality pueblo indians taught the navajos how to weave.
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She is obviously very knowledgeable and professional.
She played an integral part in preserving the lives of the dine.
Spider woman chose the top of spider rock for her home.
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Navajo women learned weaving in the mid 1600s from their pueblo indian neighbors who had been growing and weaving cotton since about 800 ad.
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Women are the weavers in traditional navajo society.
Although this cultural value is fading somewhat today with a few young men taking up the challenge women still dominate the area of weaving.
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You did a beautiful job on my rug.
At more than 300 000 enrolled tribal members as of 2015 the navajo nation is the second largest federally recognized tribe in the u s.
Diné or naabeehó are a native american people of the southwestern united states.
The dine do not separate the concepts of art beauty and religion.
This site is dedicated to keeping alive the culture traditions and beliefs of the diné navajo people also referred to as navajo indians a name not used or liked by the people.
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She continue reading spider woman of the navajo.
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The navajo prefer to be called the diné meaning the people or children of the holy people.
She taught the dine navajo ancestors of long ago the art of weaving upon a loom.
The song of the loom.
Amazing amount of detail fascinating information and so helpful.
They are all interconnected so to describe a navajo rug or blanket simply in terms of what it s made of and what it looks like is to ignore just how important the rugs are to the people who made them.
To the traditional navajo weaver spider woman provided the framework to live and weave beautiful things the essence of being navajo.