SAND CLOCK NAVAJO . - $45 (BALLWIN)

CLOCK, SANDPAINTING .
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SUN and EAGLE: (following on back of this sand painting) VINTAGE FROM 1965 FREQUENTLY THE SAND PAINTING IS MADE BY THE NAVAJO MEDICENE MAN TO ENVOKE THE LOFTY SPIRIT OF THE EAGLE IN THE HEALING OF A SICK CHILD.
THE CHILD IS REPRESENTED IN THIS PAINTING BY THE GREEN SOFT YELLOW TONE.
" 8 LARGE TURQUOISE SURROUND THE FACE WITH FOUR BRASS NUMBERALS.
sand painting, also called dry painting, type of art that exists in highly developed forms among the Navajo and Pueblo Indians of the American Southwest Although sand painting is an art form, it is valued among the Indians primarily for religious rather than aesthetic reasons.
The Navajo Reservation, the largest in the country, sprawls across the upper northeast corner of Arizona and into parts of New Mexico and Utah.
At 27,000 square miles, it is approximately the size of the state of West Virginia; in fact, it is larger than 10 states.
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