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Sand painting is used by the Navajo Indians as a ceremonial practice. The sand art is destroyed once the ceremony is completed.
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A dry painting technique is sand painting which the Navaho Indians use as part of a ritual, after which the painting is destroyed. There are also tourist versions of sand paintings made for sale.
The Navajo , or Dine' make sand paintings. Other native Americans do not. They are made by a Hatałii, a singer or medicine-man, as part of some, but not all, of many multiday Navajo healing ritual chantway ceremonies. They are designed torestore Hózhǫ́, a key Navajo concept that embraces the English ideas of order, harmony, balance, health, beauty and good in one idea.Sand-paintings are made in other parts of the world for different reasons. Thy are traditoonal in Tibet, Indigenous Australian art, and Japan
The Southwest Indians made a variety of products. Some of these include Kachina dolls, sand paintings, silver jewelry, as well as baskets.
Sand paintings or dry paintings. They are part of Navajo ceremonial rituals. The are not really the same thing that we usually mean in English when we say "art", as in things made for the pleasure of collectors. Navajo dry paintings are and integral part of much larger ceremonies that are designed to restore balance, peace, health beauty and goodness to a patient, the compel the gods and forces of nature to be present and come into balance.
sand paintings and dream catchers are two I can think of, they also made jewelry out of turquoise.
No, Navajo sandpaintings are created for healing and creating balance, and harmony for the patient. They are part of complex religious ceremonies, not for social protest.
So called "Sand-painting" is not art as we normally mean with the word. It is important because it is part of Navajo traditional religious ceremonies. They are made of colored sand, pollen, charcoal and other ground up substances. They are destroyed at the end of the ceremony. Most of the ceremonies are to heal a patient. Most of the ceremonies last many days and can include 12 or more sand paintings. Some sand paintings have been done for art but the images are usually altered so as not to harm the makers.
houses are made of adobe and sand.
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Sand paintings, rock art, totems, dot paintings- and possibly others:)