This is a 16\" x 10\" Signed Johnson Navajo Female Yei Kachina Spirit Dancer Sandpainting Dry Painting, very good condition.
According to Navajo belief, a sandpainting heals because the ritual image attracts and exalts the Holy People; serves as a pathway for the mutual exchange of illness and the healing power of the Holy People; identifies the patient with the Holy People it depicts; and creates a ritual reality in which the patient and the supernatural dramatically interact, reestablishing the patient\'s correct relationship with the world of the Holy People ( GriffinPierce 1992:43).
For the Navajo, the sandpainting is a dynamic, living, sacred entity that enables the patient to transform his or her mental and physical state by focusing on the powerful mythic symbols that re-create the chantway odyssey of the storys protagonist, causing those events to live again in the present.
The performative power of sandpainting creation and ritual use reestablish the proper, orderly placement of the forces of life, thus restoring correct relations between the patient and those forces upon which the patient\'s spiritual and physical health depend. The sandpainting works its healing power by reestablishing the patient\'s sense of connectedness to all of life ( Griffin-Pierce 1991:66).
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