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The price had risen to $3,000 before eBay closed the auction. [8] [9] In May 2006, the remains of U.S. Fort Montgomery, a stone fortification in upstate New York built in 1844, were put up for auction on eBay. The first auction ended on June 5, 2006, with a winning bid of US$5,000,310.
Sheep wool was the most important product traded or sold by the Navajo to the trader. By 1888, the Navajo were selling 800,000 lb (360,000 kg) of wool for 8 to 10 cents per pound. They also sold sheep and goat skins to traders. Pine nuts were a major Navajo product in the infrequent years in which the pinyon pine produced large quantities of ...
Corn pollen is used as a blessing and as an offering during prayer. [47] One half of the major Navajo song ceremonial complex is the Blessing Way (Hózhǫ́ǫ́jí) and the other half is the Enemy Way (Anaʼí Ndááʼ). The Blessing Way ceremonies are based on establishing "peace, harmony, and good things exclusively" within the Dine.
For the corn she plans to dry, she shucks the husks after the ears cool. If the corn has been cooked long enough, the kernels will have an amber color similar to the top of baked bread, she described.
Faye Tso (1933–2004) was a Navajo potter and herbal medicine healer. [1] Her pieces are known for their nontraditional imagery of corn maidens, warriors, and dancers, whereas Navajo pottery typically has little decoration. [2]
Yahoo! Auctions is a service set up by the online search giant Yahoo! in 1998 to compete against eBay. [2]There are currently only two localizations of the service active in Taiwan and Japan; Yahoo! has discontinued the service in the United States, Canada, Singapore, Hong Kong, United Kingdom and Ireland.
Red was the most difficult dye to obtain locally. Early Navajo textiles use cochineal, an extract from a Mesoamerican beetle, which often made a circuitous trade route through Spain and England on its way to the Navajo. Reds used in Navajo weaving tended to be raveled from imported textiles. The Navajo obtained black dye through piñon pitch ...
Ramah Navajo use it as a ceremonial emetic. [9] Acourtia wrightii (brownfoot), used by the Kayenta Navajo for difficult labor and as a postpartum medicine. [10] Adiantum capillus-veneris (southern maidenhair fern), an infusion of which is used by the Kayenta Navajo as a lotion for bumblebee and centipede stings. They also use an infusion to ...