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...Navajo Medicine Man Billy Norton of Gallup, N. Mex. did a large (100 sq. ft.) ceremonial sand-painting especially for a TIME photographer...
...your Oct. 8 Navajo sand-painting: Some years ago the Museum of Modern Art had a group of Indians giving a demonstration of this extraordinary art. It was a religious ceremony, and the picture was swept out each afternoon with ritualistic exercises...
According to legend, the Navajo Indians learned art from their gods. The gods painted lasting pictures on buckskin, but they told the Navajos to make sand-paintings and destroy them as soon as they were used. Art is magic, the gods explained, and magic for mortals is a sometime thing...
...sand-painting on this page is one of scores that Navajo medicine men know by heart and create (and destroy) within a day. It is an integral part of the Navajo Night Chant, a nine-day rite which takes place soon after autumn's first frost. Its purpose is to heal the very...
...scattered them all through the school system. He left Morgan Maxwell, Negro principal of the junior high school for Negroes, where he was, even though Maxwell would now have white teachers and pupils under him. And Morrow had hired another Negro teacher, plus two Chinese, and a Navajo...