FOLK ART CHICKEN BY CONSTANCE WADSWORTH NAVAJO

Description These stellar Navajo folk art chickens are hard to resist.  Bright colors with bees painted on the chicken’s body.  Constance Wadsworth hand carves her folk art pieces out of  wood and hand paints them.  Signed. 4  7/8” tall x 2  1/2” long x 2  7/16” wide  (height is to top of straw tail) Artist card included In recent years, wood figurines hand carved by self-taught Navajo artists have developed into Navajo Folk Art.  These carvings of traditional personal images and indigenous animals are characteristic of the cultural integrity on the Navajo people.  Strong cultural values provide for and sustain the artistic traditions of the Navajo.