Native American Navajo Hand Painted SandPainting FRANK shop MARTIN

Product Name: Native American Navajo Hand Painted SandPainting FRANK shop MARTIN
Native American Navajo Hand Painted shop SandPainting FRANK MARTIN. FRANK MARTIN is a respected and talented Navajo sandpainter from Shiprock, NM in the Four Corners area on the Navajo reservation. Frank's expertise in making precise traditional and ceremonial sandpaintings is seen by the quality of his sandpaintings and the popularity of his work, which sells all over the country and internationally as well. Frank has been an artist in residence in places like the Univeristy of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. Navajo Sandpaintings, also called dry paintings, are called "places where the gods come and go" in the Navajo language. They are used in curing ceremonies in which the gods' help is requested for harvests and healing. The figures in sand paintings are symbolic representations of a story in Navajo mythology. They depict objects like the sacred mountains where the gods live, or legendary visions, or they illustrate dances or chants performed in rituals.