Biil wool/biil dress/rug dress
A biil (beehl) dress is traditional Navajo womens' dress made from two woven panels sewn together with openings for neck and arms.
Here are some links I found
Juanita's dress is coming home
http://navajotimes.com/entertainment/culture/0810/082110dress.phphttp://www.navajotimes.com/entertainment/culture/2011/1111/110711dress.php
see last picture bottom right
woven dress show
Native Treasures website - nice pictures
see mbm332 first picture
It evokes the old-style biil (Navajo dress) as well as the skies of Dine' Bike'yah.
It evokes the old-style biil (Navajo dress) as well as the skies of Dine' Bike'yah.
the navajo - juvenile books
Navajo weaving spirit pathways or spiritlines
24 blankets come to Navajo Nation
Biil pictures
see manta blanket dress
rug dress
More pictures
A portrait
Online book Indian Blankets and their Makers
Bayeta blanket
look for biil dress
about churro wool
2 comments:
What an amazing collection of resources! Broavo for all your hard work!
Just an ordinary day of web surfing. I try to copy links as I go. It is so much different than it was a few years ago. Even searches from last year reveal more hits as more people post their info. All the credit goes to people who post their stuff for us to browse.
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