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...About 40% of Blanding's 117,000 acres are below the level of a nearby lake. Result: $740,000 for a drainage system and dredging to replace muck with sand. Moving one group of tents out of the mud cost around...
...Roads built with crushed rock bought from a Florida partnership formed last July cost $1,247,000. Investigator Engel was told by engineers that $547,000 could have been saved by using sand, oil and clay binder...
Charley Turquoise and the Short Man's Grandson were making the ritualistic sand painting that forms the climax of the five-day Navajo Thunder Chant. The painting should have been made in a hogan, or House of Song, built of cedar logs and mud, with its entrance facing east. The Museum of Modern Art couldn't supply a hogan, but Charley and the Short Man's Grandson were always careful to enter their sand painting from the east. Because the Thunder Chant's sand-painting medicine was strong medicine, and any pictures of it might make...
...certain stages of the painting, before its medicine was too strong to be dangerous, official pictures were allowed.) For three days the sand painters worked at their picture-a great circle of square-shouldered spirits interspersed with bright-hued corn, tobacco, squash and bean plants, a dragon...
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...