When John the Jeweler was Sick

The center is a part of one of the Navaho sand paintings made for

curing ceremonial. The figures are supernaturals, the central objects

represent growing corn; the bent rectangular figure, the rainbow. In

the four corners are dance masks used in the same ceremony, and at the

bottom is the rug, with the various ceremonial objects laid upon it,

which is a feature of the ceremony.

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