Navajo Sand Painting

Description

This is a Navajo signed sand painting. Beautiful bright colored sands. This is a native turtle! Great gift giving with a meaning and sacred art. Not one alike!

The turtle holds profound symbolism in Native American traditions, representing creation, wisdom, protection, and harmony in the natural world. As a symbol of resilience, patience, and guidance, the turtle plays a vital role in spiritual beliefs, mythology, art, and clan structures within Indigenous tribes.

To create these sacred works, the Shaman of the tribe ‘paints’ by letting colored sand fall carefully through his fingers onto the ground, creating holy symbols and holy figures that are believe to heal.
After the sand painting is complete, a person who is suffering an illness or issue is asked to sit on the painting while the medicine man recites healing chants.

* 12″ X 12″
* have to put your own hooks to hang
* not framed
* signed

Native American sandpainting. There are 600 to 1,000 different traditional designs for sandpaintings known to the Navajo. They do not view the paintings as static objects, but as spiritual, living beings to be treated with great respect. More than 30 different sandpaintings may be associated with one ceremony.