Description: Vintage Lester Johnson Navajo Sand Art "Chant God" Healing Ceremony, Signed on Back by Artist. Framed and matted, 11"x11". Description on back of painting by the artist: "Chant God - Made one day singing to heal the sick people. Lester Johnson" Lester Johnson is a fine Navajo sand painter who creates traditional Navajo sand paintings that are precisely designed and made using traditional sands and minerals from the Navajo Reservation. Hand signed on the backside. According to the Navajo religion, the Universe is a very delicately balanced thing. If this balance is upset, some disaster - usually an illness - will follow. To restore the balance and harmony means performing one of the many Navajo chants or ways. These complex ceremonies involve the use of herbs, prayers, songs and sandpaintings. The sandpainting is done in a careful and sacred manner, according to the ancient knowledge of the art. As the patient is seated atop the completed sandpainting, the medicine man bends to reverently touch a portion of a figure in the sandpainting, and then moves to touch the patient, transferring the medicine and power. As this is done, the sickness falls from the person and harmony returns. Then, before the sun sets the sandpainting is erased with a sacred feather, and the patient rises to walk in beauty once again.
Price: 49.99 USD
Location: McLeansboro, Illinois
End Time: 2024-09-02T12:33:43.000Z
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Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Origin: Southwestern
Provenance: Lester Johnson
Ceremony Type: Healing Ceremony
Artisan: Lester Johnson
Tribal Affiliation: Navajo
Technique: Sacred Feather Sand Painting
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Modified Item: No
Culture: Native American: US
