Beautifully abstracted in Navajo sandpaintings, dragonflies were usually depicted as symbols and guardians of water. In 1948, Lyman and Bailey studied the role of insects in Navajo language, everyday life and religion. It was pioneering fieldwork in ethnoentomology, the study
Dragonfly Constellation
Tony Abeyta’s magical dragonflies shimmer towards the heavens. “Dragonflies are messengers. If you lived in the desert, they would take you to the sanctuary of water,” Tony Abeyta said in reference to this painting. A pre-eminent Native American artist, Tony