Word: peshlakai
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When they had finished, Charley systematically destroyed the sand painting, for it would have been bad medicine to leave it as it was. The destruction took 40 minutes. With the help of Mary Peshlakai, a Navajo squaw who had come with them from Window Rock, Ariz, to weave blankets for the Museum's Indian exhibit, Charley and the Short Man's Grandson muttered, groaned, sprinkled corn pollen over the figures they had painted. Then they stood to one side and chanted. It was not funny. It was moving. Still chanting, Charley carefully shuffled over the design, destroying...
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