Clothing
Moccasins, preferably a velveteen shirt, and jewelry.
What are the Navajo Men's clothing styles?
Tools used to break up the land to plant crops.
What is a rake?
Traditional structures used by Navajo Indians for homes and ceremonies
What is a Hogan?
A celebration involving singing and dancing. Usually used to celebrate life.
What is a ceremony?
String wrapped around one's fingers to create shapes
What is the string game?
Dresses of moccasins foot or knee-high length, pleated velvet/cotton skirts, matching long-sleeve blouses, concho and or sash belts, shawls, and jewelry.
What are the Navajo Women's clothing styles?
A piece of material decorated with feathers that is used to shield the body.
What is a shield?
A dome-shaped structure with a wood or stone frame.
What is a Hogan structure?
The equalization of the mortal and spiritual worlds?
What is balance?
A game involving three sticks and a basket.
What is the stick game?
Shells, coral, and glass beads.
What materials were used to make the pendants the Navajo people wore?
Bow and arrows, club, and lance.
What are the Navajos weapons
An eastern-facing entrance towards the rising sun is most commonly covered by blankets and has a circular opening in the roof of the building for smoke to be released from the structure.
What was the original Hogan structure design?
The god of rain
Who is Tonenili?
First to 25 wins
How do you win the stick game?
They must wear the appropriate clothing to be recognized.
What did the Navajo people do to be helped by the "Great Spirit"?
Something used to spin wool into yarn.
Drop spindle
Hexagon or octagon buildings that notched logs or balloon construction frames.
What is the new construction style for the Hogans?
Someone who is in charge of healing
What is a Singer?
Ashbii
What is the traditional name for the stick game?
Use their clothing, especially their leather moccasins.
What did the Navajo people do to express their heritage and hunting?
Feathers, skin, and animal fur.
What materials were used to decorate the weapons?
By the early 21’s century, it was mainly to allow new materials and techniques for construction.
Why did the architecture of Hogan’s change?
Estsanatlehi
Who is the goddess of the Earth?
half-black half-white, another half-red half-black, and one with an all red side and one with an all black side
What are the colors of the sticks?