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sand painting definition

☆ sand painting

  1. in Navajo Indian healing ceremonies, the sprinkling of colored sands into designs made up of conventionalized symbolic figures
  2. any similar design, painting, etc.

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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