Enhancement Materials - Contemporary Navajo Baskets on the Utah Reservation

These enhancement materials go with the Contemporary Navajo Baskets on the Utah Reservation lesson plan which is based on the Utah Historical Quarterly article "Contemporary Navajo Baskets on the Utah Reservation (Summer 2006, Volume 74, Number 3).

Utah Historical Quarterly can be purchased by contacting Craig Fuller.

Additional Useful Materials:
Woven Willow, Goshute Baskets, Grandmothers, and “How It Used To Be article from Beehive History 24.

All photos by Carol Edison and Courtesy of the Utah Arts Council, unless otherwise noted.

Activity One

Gathering and Winnowing Baskets

Activity Two

Navajo Rug

Navajo Wedding Basket

Activity Four

Shoshone Weaver Harvesting Willow		Navajo Weaver, Splitting Sumac

Awls		Weaving Sumac
Close View of Basket

Activity Five
Modified Wedding Baskets

Wedding Basket with Human Figures		Wedding Basket with Horses

Wedding Basket with Eagle		Wedding Basket with Ducks

Stella Eyetoo

Animal Baskets

Basket with Does		Basket with Butterflies

Basket with Horse Heads		Basket with Rabbits

Jeannie Bitsinnie Begay

Activity Six
Mary Holiday Black

Mary Holiday Black		Mary Holiday Black Weaving

Rainbow Ye'ii Basket		Fire Dance Basket

Activity Seven

Turkey Basket		Eleanor Cly Rock

Placing the Stars Basket		Separation of the Sexes Basket, Agnes Black Gray

Changing Bear Woman Basket		Sally Black with Changing Woman Basket

Lorraine Black with Horned Toad Story Basket		Big Monster Basket

Sand Painting Story Basket