Navaho Indian Myths Louis World's Fair poster

Louis World's Fair poster

For students of art

vanishing point

beginning with the dozens and dozens of root motifs — rice plant

" Other pieces deal with The Hypocrisy of Puritanism

Navaho Indian Myths Louis World's Fair posterIn the late 1920s, an elderly Navaho leader, anxious to preserve the myths of his people before they were lost in the tide of modern civilization, asked Aileen O'Bryan to record the tales he told her and to publish them in a book. The storyteller was Sandoval, Hastin Tlo'tsi hee (or Old Man Buffalo Grass), the first of the four chiefs of the Navaho People. Ms. O'Bryan, then living in Mesa Verde National Park, wrote down the old man's stories as well