Tapestries in Sand: The Spirit of Indian Sandpainting

A part Otomi Indian from Mexico was adopted into the Navajo tribe at sixteen. He learned sandpainting from the medicine men who painted loosely on the ground, to be destroyed within a twelve hour period. He explains the inner meaning of some 30 sandpaintings such as Whirling Rainbows and Big Thunder. Sixteen of the sandpaintings have color plates.