Navajo Sash Belt and Moccasins

These moccasins and sash belt were given to us by a friend.  Her brother had served as a doctor in a Navajo Reservation and the patients had loved him so much they gave him these artifacts as a gift.  The Navajo Sash Belt was considered sacred and was worn by young women as a gift when entering womanhood.  I arranged the sash belt and the moccasins for this still life painting  which measures 11x14 and is framed to 14x17 overall.