Spider Woman's Gift: Nineteenth-Century Diné Textiles: Ni...
Tisdale, Shelby J.
Between the red canyon walls of Canyon de Chelly in Arizona, in the heart of the Navajo Nation, stands an eight-hundred-foot sandstone rock formation known as Spider Rock. According to Dine oral history, this sacred place is where Spider Woman, or Na ashe'ii'asdza, makes her home. For centuries, her gift of weaving has provided the Dine with a constant means of sustenance.Dine textile and basketry weavings in Santa Fe's Museum of Indian Arts a...