Talking God 3
This is a Navajo Indian sandpainting of the Soft Talker, made during the curative ceremony lasting eight (8) days and nine (9) nights called the "Night Way" chant.
It is a ceremony for someone becoming blind, deaf, crippling, and insomnia. A ceremony is performed only after the harvest season up till mid-winter with dances. This same ceremony could be performed throughout the late spring and summer, only the dancings are omitted.
The Soft Talker (Yei-bi-chai leader) wears a head dress of eight eagle tail feathers and six owl plumes, three on each side at the base of the head dress.
Yellow chin line denote corn pollen path.
The wrist bands, arm streamers, knee garters and sash are of the rainbows.
His feet are of the black clouds.
He carries a tree squirrel skin bag on a rainbow twine for corn meal offering.
This painting is all hand done out of pulverized natural colored sand stones, silicon, and mineral rocks. No artificially colored sands are used what-so-ever.
To clean; douse with running cold water and stand to drip dry.
By: Grey Squirrel (Fred Stevens, Jr.), Navajo Indian Sandpainter and Medicine Man
Unique identification points of this Soft Talker:
1. Square eyes and mouth
2. Squirrel bag
3. Rug pattern kilt
4. Tapered body
All information and photographs courtesy of Nizhoni Cards. For more sandpainting information, please visit our web page.