AG 301 This Jicarilla (Spanish for 'small basket') Apache
angel wears braided hair for riding horseback. Her clothing is so
distinctive with its striped shawl and beaded necklace. She can
sit just about anywhere. Though we call her people Jicarilla, she
calls herself Tinde. Her lands are great for fishing, hunting and
camping now. She wears a very wide leather belt studded with
designs in either brass tacks or silver buttons. She has bead
work on her skirt as the Jicarilla are known for their beautiful
bead work. She wears a large beaded necklace which most of
her friends wear, too. She has knee high buttoned on traded
boots for riding and wears traded jewelry from the Pueblo
neighbors.
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AG 302 This angel would also stand about 7 inches tall of she
weren't sitting down and showing off her lovely, handmade silver
and turquoise squash blossom necklace. She is a silversmith
and calls her people Dine' and not Navajo, unless she wants you
to understand who she is talking about, because that's the name
most of us call her people.
She is from Shiprock, in northern New Mexico, though her
Reservation extends from there into northern Arizona and it
surrounds the Hopi Reservation inside its tummy. It is beautiful
land for photography, but difficult for making a living.
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AG 303 This Zuni Pueblo angel is from western New Mexico
and she sits and prays for us all or for anything that you find
important in your life or day. I need this kind of help and so I
make praying angels to pray for me and mine and others. She is
wearing the same pueblo dress woven in either black or brown,
the same as in the ancient artwork of the oldest Indians in the
southwestern United States. She, however, "dresses up" the old
style more than any other women of other New Mexico pueblos.
She looks like a beautiful Spanish garden of colorful flowers.
She wears a blouse under her dress, as the Hopi rarely do. I
saw a picture of three beautiful Zuni ( it is pronounced Zoon-yee
or Soon-yee) girls in a turquoise jewelry magazine and combined
the three to make this angel. She calls herself A'shiwi, we call
her Zuni.
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AG 304 This smaller angel is a reader and sits reading as I did
when younger. I made the original to sit on my old monitor and
read the HOW TO FIX COMPUTERS book and help me out.
But, her book can be about anything. I actually write words on
the little books and you can, too. She was made as an angel for
readers or to pray that a certain person and certain children,
might take up more reading. She celebrates books and their
lovers. Librarians and collectors. Editors, teachers and
publishers.
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