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The first loom was said to be of sky and earth cords with tools of sunlight lightning white shell and crystal.
She played an integral part in preserving the lives of the dine.
The song of the loom.
The dine do not separate the concepts of art beauty and religion.
The cherokee nation being the largest and has the largest reservation in the country.
In reality pueblo indians taught the navajos how to weave.
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Spider woman is among the most important and honored deities of the dine navajo people.
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.
The navajo dine dih neh in their own language are athabascan speaking people who migrated to the southwest from canada in about the 15th century.
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.
She taught the dine navajo ancestors of long ago the art of weaving upon a loom.
Navajo women learned weaving in the mid 1600s from their pueblo indian neighbors who had been growing and weaving cotton since about 800 ad.
She is obviously very knowledgeable and professional.
Although this cultural value is fading somewhat today with a few young men taking up the challenge women still dominate the area of weaving.
Spider woman chose the top of spider rock for her home.
Navajo rugs a navajo legend credits a deity named spider woman with teaching them weaving.
Women are the weavers in traditional navajo society.
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To the traditional navajo weaver spider woman provided the framework to live and weave beautiful things the essence of being navajo.
You did a beautiful job on my rug.
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