Apache "Chiricahua Sun" design Hand-Designed Tribal Art Piece

Sandpainting as an art form: Sandpainting is an art form created by pouring colored sands and pigments onto a surface, often with cultural and religious significance. Navajo and Pueblo traditions: Highly developed forms of sand painting exist among the Navajo and Pueblo Indians of the American Southwest, primarily for religious and healing ceremonies. Symbolism and Healing: In Navajo belief, sand paintings are sacred and used to invoke the power of deities to restore balance and harmony. They depict images from religious events and are used in healing rituals where the patient sits on the painting, and sand is applied to their body.