Footnotes

• A MEMORY AID FROM A NAVAJO CHANTER'S BUNDLE
  
  Sometimes referred to as "muslins" after the trade cloth they are painted on. Variations in Navajo sandpaintings and prayersticks number in the hundreds and though it is preferred that a Singer knows the ones he uses perfectly, some Chanters resort to memory aids. A mistake in a painting or prayerstick offering could be dangerous for the One-Sung-over, or patient. This muslin depicts a variety of images, the Sun and Moon clothed in snakes, two Yei figures, and prayerstick combinations that may all be representative of the Windway Chant. Prayersticks of this type are sacrificially deposited in various places by the One-Sung-Over at the direction of the Chanter.
  
  Provenance:
  Richard Corrow Collection, Apache Junction, Arizona

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Category: Ethnographic Art / Native American

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