Navajo Woman Holding Peyote Fan

A highly imaginative composition portraying the peyote bird spirits emanating from the peyote fan held by the Navajo woman.

Charlie Begay is a Navajo painter who was active as an artist in the late 20th century. In the late 1970s he exhibited at the Annual American Indian Art Exhibition at the Philbrook Art Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. His work is included in the Heritage Center Collection at the Red Cloud Indian School in Pine Ridge, South Dakota.