sand painting
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- in Navajo Indian healing ceremonies, the sprinkling of colored sands into designs made up of conventionalized symbolic figures
- any similar design, painting, etc.
See sand painting in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun- A ceremonial design of the Navajo and Pueblo peoples made by trickling fine colored sand, pollen, or powder onto a base of neutral sand.
- The art of making designs with colored sand.