Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Day 74: Sandpainting


Traditional sandpaintings of the Navajo Native Americans of the U.S. Southwest are used in healing ceremonies.  Commercially-produced ones like this one are sold as souvenirs and contain purposeful errors as the real ones are considered sacred.

4 comments:

  1. very nice shot, am sure that took a long time to make.

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  2. So beautiful. I definitely wouldn't have the patience to produce such a piece of art.

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