Gerald Dawavendewa Corn Maidens Matted Print Matted Cards and A Funny Thing Happened

and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to School

Features the work of more than 300 artists

and etchings

Dick’s unique humor and storytelling style

Gerald Dawavendewa Corn Maidens Matted Print Matted Cards and A Funny Thing HappenedTwo corn maiden spirits sing prayer songs among corn plants to welcome the approaching rain. Dragonflies gather above the clouds. Corn is very important in Hopi culture. When the Hopi people came to this world, Tuuwaqatsi the Fourth World to the Hopi, they chose an ear of small blue corn representing a life of long existence and challenges. When a child is born, they are presented with a perfect ear of white corn that symbolizes the mother of a child.