A Navajo short film which documents a boy drawing and using water from Old Antelope Lake.
The filmmaker's mother, weaver Alta Kahn, weaves a rug. The film also shows how the weaver's job consists of of raising the sheep, shearing the wool, digging yucca roots for soap with which to wash the wool, carding and spinning, walking, digging and searching for roots with which to make dye, dying the wool, and putting the warp on the loom.
Directed by Mary J. Tsosie and Maxine Tsosie.
The life of a Navajo silversmith. The silversmith carves a figurine, mines for ore and goes about his daily routine.
Alfred Clah was a Navajo artist from a community outside Pine Springs, AZ. He said: "they making films about things out there, the trading post, things you can see; I'm making films about inside: I like to see scenes that people never expected, the legends, the gods."
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