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  2. Diné Bahaneʼ - Wikipedia

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    Diné Bahaneʼ. Diné Bahaneʼ ( Navajo pronunciation: [tɪ̀né pɑ̀xɑ̀nèʔ], Navajo: "Story of the People" ), is a Navajo creation story that describes the prehistoric emergence of the Navajo as a part of the Navajo religious beliefs. It centers on the area known as the Dinétah, the traditional homeland of the Navajo, and forms the basis ...

  3. Four Sacred Mountains of the Navajo - Wikipedia

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    The four sacred mountains in the cardinal directions of Navajo Country hold great importance. They are named in sunwise order and associated with the colors of the four cardinal directions: Sisnaajiní or Blanca Peak (white in the east), Tsoodził or Mt. Taylor (blue in the south), Doko’oosłííd or the San Francisco Peaks (yellow in the ...

  4. Navajo weaving - Wikipedia

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    Navajo weaving. Navajo weaving ( Navajo: diyogí) are textiles produced by Navajo people, who are based near the Four Corners area of the United States. Navajo textiles are highly regarded and have been sought after as trade items for more than 150 years. Commercial production of handwoven blankets and rugs has been an important element of the ...

  5. Clothing in the ancient world - Wikipedia

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    Clothes were secured with ornamental clasps or pins (περόνη, perónē; cf. fibula), and a belt, sash, or girdle might secure the waist. Peplos, Chitons. The inner tunic was a peplos or chiton. The peplos was a worn by women. It was usually a heavier woollen garment, more distinctively Greek, with its shoulder clasps.

  6. Senninbari - Wikipedia

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    Senninbari. A senninbari (千人針, 'thousand person stitches') or one thousand stitch is a belt or strip of cloth stitched 1000 times and given as a Shinto amulet by Japanese women and imperial subjects to soldiers going away to war. Senninbari were decorated with 1000 knots or stitches, and each stitch was normally made by a different woman.

  7. Navajo - Wikipedia

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    The Navajo [a] are a Native American people of the Southwestern United States . With more than 399,494 enrolled tribal members as of 2021, [1] [4] the Navajo Nation is the largest federally recognized tribe in the United States; additionally, the Navajo Nation has the largest reservation in the country. The reservation straddles the Four ...

  8. Visual arts of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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    The visual arts of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas encompasses the visual artistic practices of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas from ancient times to the present. These include works from South America and North America, which includes Central America and Greenland. The Siberian Yupiit, who have great cultural overlap with Native ...

  9. Ceinture fléchée - Wikipedia

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    A fingerbraiding modern arrow sash handmade in 2007 (with details of the patterns) A machine-woven modern arrow sash The ceinture fléchée [sɛ̃tyʁ fleʃe] (French, 'arrowed sash') or ('arrow sash') is a type of colourful sash, a traditional piece of Québécois clothing linked to at least the 17th century (of the Lower Canada, Canada East and early confederation eras).