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- 230822-01 Navajo Yei Bei Chi Rug
230822-01 Navajo Yei Bei Chi Rug
ca. 2000
42" h x 70" L
With Dancing Yei figures performing a medicine ceremony. With a variety of natural wool tones including the hard to find "Natural Navajo Red" wool, combined with the aniline dyed stronger colors. Very well balanced in colors and motif.
Hand spun wool warp and weft; Excellent, almost Like-New Condition except there are two small breaks: a small break on the end and a small yarn pull on the top edge as pictured.
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The Yei Be Chei dancers are the human impersonators who perform the ceremonies. The Yei weavings present the dancers who dance, perform, and enact the ceremony of the Yeis. Ceremonies are performed to either attract or exorcise effects to The People. The Yeis perform specific dances and rituals, as directed by the Medicine Man, during the ceremony for the desired end.