Yei-be-chai

Navajo Yei-Be-Chai Weaving with Eight Dancers and a Patient. The masked dancers wear feathered headdresses, spruce collars, and kilts, each holding a rattle, while the patient for whom the healing ceremony is held stands at the far left in a striped blanket. Woven with vegetal dyes in soft mauve, peach, sage, and ivory, the design is framed with serrated ivory and brown borders above and below. Yei-Be-Chai weavings depict the dancers who represent the Yei, a group of Holy People (Diyin Dineʼé), in the Night Way ceremony.

25” (2' 1") Width, 16” (1' 4") Length