Tapestries in Sand: The Spirit of Indian Sandpainting

by David Villasenor

A part Otomi Indian from Mexico was adopted into the Navajo tribe at sixteen. He learned sandpainting from the medicine men who painted loosely on the ground, to be destroyed within a twelve hour period. He explains the inner meaning of some 30 sandpaintings such as Whirling Rainbows and Big Thunder. Sixteen of the sandpaintings have color plates.

112 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1966