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dataMM[1] = new data("images/collaboration/mm_01_l.jpg","<font><strong>Morris Muskett</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;August 2002<br><br>&quot;Ya’at’eeh! I am a self-taught Navajo weaver. In my culture, clans are important in identifying a person and their relationship to other people in the world. Here are my clans. I am of the Towering House People born for the Folded Arms People. I am related to the Zia People through my paternal grandfather and the Red-Running-Into-The Water People through my maternal grandfather.<br><br>I live in Church Rock, New Mexico. I attended and graduated from New Mexico State University with a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering. While at New Mexico State, I made the College of Engineering Dean’s List, was inducted into the Chi Epsilon and Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Societies, named a Crimson Scholar and participated in the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES).&quot;</font>")
dataMM[2] = new data("images/collaboration/mm_02_l.jpg","<font>&quot;I began my artistic career as a child by helping my maternal grandmother make Navajo dolls. My mother also introduced me to working with beads and the beading loom. By working with color and fiber, I became interested in working with wool.<br><br>Every year my family used to gather on weekends to help shear my maternal grandmother’s sheep. Since there were no weavers in my family, my grandmother sold the wool. Several years had passed and I finally got the opportunity to shear and process wool from grandmother’s flock of sheep. I plan to use this wool for a future project.<br><br>I have participated in the Santa Fe Indian Market, Heard Indian Fair & Market, Scottsdale Indian Artists of America Show and the Museum of Northern Arizona’s Navajo Marketplace. In 2002, I received a Southwestern Association of Indian Arts (SWAIA) Fellowship and a Native Arts Program Fellowship from the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI). I also received 1st Place for Traditional Sashes, 1st Place for Miscellaneous Non-Traditional Textiles, and Best of Division in Non-Traditional Textiles at the 2002 Santa Fe Indian Market.&quot;<br><br>Morris Muskett may be contacted at P O Box 1163, Church Rock, New Mexico, 87311 or at morris@morrismuskett.com.&quot;</font>")
dataMM[3] = new data("images/collaboration/mm_03_l.jpg","<font>Pueblo Rain Sash<br>Cotton<br>2000<br><br>&quot;Agriculture is important to the Native people of the Southwest. This sash symbolizes the importance of clouds and rain. The abstract cloud designs represent the cyclical nature of the four seasons.&quot;</font>")
dataMM[4] = new data("images/collaboration/mm_04_l.jpg","<font>Hopi Dance Sash<br>Cotton and Wool<br>2001<br><br>&quot;My work is rooted in Navajo sash and rug weaving. I wanted to recapture the essence and context of sashes in ancient Navajo society. I incorporated elements from a myth where Coyote helped First Woman by carelessly throwing the blanket of stars into the night sky.&quot;</font>")
dataMM[5] = new data("images/collaboration/mm_05_l.jpg","<font>Variegated Sash<br>Wool, natural dyes<br>2001<br><br>&quot;My hand dyeing with natural plants is a Navajo traditional art. For this piece I used Navajo tea, sagebrush, and Hills Brothers coffee to dye my yarn. As a child, I remember my maternal grandmother making tea or coffee when we visited her. I wanted to recapture these visits because they were times of sharing and learning.&quot;</font>")
dataMM[6] = new data("images/collaboration/mm_06_l.jpg","<font>Ceremonial Pouch<br>Cotton and Wool<br>2001<br><br>&quot;Navajo People use buckskins for ceremonial pouches to store corn meal, corn pollen, and other ceremonial paraphernalia. This pouch is an interpretation of these buckskin pouches with an emphasis on the importance of functional woven textiles in Native cultures. The colors of yarn represent corn while the handmade silver buttons represent a plentiful corn harvest.&quot;</font>")
dataMM[7] = new data("images/collaboration/mm_07_l.jpg","<font>Navajo Manta Rug<br>Wool<br>2001<br><br>&quot;Early Navajo weavers used the basic color combination of natural black and indigo blue. The symbolism of these colors and use of hand processed wool fleece empowered Navajo weavers to created blankets and clothing with a life of their own. As I wove this piece, I felt a connection to my ancestors and their need to create textiles.&quot;</font>")
dataMM[8] = new data("images/collaboration/mm_08_l.jpg","<font>&quot;My journeys to New York and Washington, D.C. were exciting. It was a time of artistic and personal growth for me. I realized that our need for clothing and artistic creativity creates relationships between fiber artists and society.<br><br>I handled and examined Navajo blankets woven before the twentieth century. Each time I did this, it seemed like I could hear the beating of the weaver’s comb, the weaver’s thoughts about their art and the discussion of what items would be traded for the completed blanket. Navajo blankets served our need for clothing and helped to create relationships between Navajos and non-Navajos.<br><br>I appreciate the staff at the National Museum of the American Indian, University of Pennsylvania-Philadelphia, American National Museum of Natural History, the Brooklyn Museum of Art and the American Craft Museum for their time and assistance.&quot;</font>")

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