Video: Important Symbols in Traditional Navajo Native American Art: Pt. 1

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Learn about the importance working with symbols in a traditional Navajo painting in this free instructional art video.

- Important Symbols in Traditional Navajo Native American Art: Pt. 1

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Okay, this is more of a male figure here and that's more of a female figure and this is a horn toad. The horn toad is considered to be an important symbol for Navajo culture. More of Grandpa figure, a protection figure. I like to use the different layers so you get that on a special perspective...how this symbol moves in and out and comes out from different directions...and this symbol of vibration emerges. Are important figures to winter. They come out in the winter time. They're meant to help bring us...there are specific types of deities...maybe they would consider them...There's certain deities out there where we would refer to them in the morning when you pray but they represent our abilities. So, in the mornings when you say, that's Mother Earth and Father Sky. We recognize them because they're the earth's symbols.

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Important Symbols in Traditional Navajo Native American Art: Pt. 1

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