The Arrow People
The Arrow People
This is a Navajo Indian Sandpainting of the Arrow People made during the four days, and five nights curative ceremony called the "Shooting Way" chant.
From the left to right are Red Stone Arrow deity or woman, Abalone Arrow Woman, White Shell Arrow Man, and Turquoise Arrow Man.
Their head dresses are red horse hair and eagle feathers. White forehead lines denote consciences. Yellow chin lines are corn pollen paths.
Arm streamers, wrist bands, knee garters, and sashes are of the rainbows. The feet are black clouds with red streaks of the sunset rays.
They each carry a bow and arrow.
A rainbow goddess with feathers surrounds the figures on three sides.
This painting is all hand done, out of pulverized natural colored sand stones, silicon, and mineral rocks.
By: Grey Squirrel(Fred Stevens, Jr.), Navajo Indian Sandpainter and Medicine Man
Arrow People
The figures depicted are rather unusual in that the bodies are highly elongated.(This is supposed to represent great power.) These particular proportions are quite rare. The bodies are in the form of an arrow, with the fletchings being the wider body portion of the upper chest. The segmented divisions of the torsos are meant to represent the sections of the reeds that arrows were made of. Note that the same pattern is followed in the arrows held in the right hands of each figure.
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