The Art of Healing, a Diné Medicineway

by Leon Yost

This booklet documents the Navajo "Red Ant Medicineway," a two-day healing ceremony. Navajo healing ceremonies are sacred and rarely photographed. Each day the medicine man makes a sand painting of holy people on the hogan floor. He calls them with cornmeal, pollen and song and the patient sits in the center to effect the healing. After about two hours he sweeps up the paintings and scatters the sand outside. Leon Yost is a documentary photographer...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08GVGMVMZ
• ISBN13: 9798672321226
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.0" x 10.0"