#805 - "Hogan Blessed" by Bajè Whitethorne, Sr.

The copy and poem is on the inside left of the card, the verse is on the right.

The area depicted is located in the Big Mountain area of Navajoland. The white rock canyon surrounding the hogan produces a white clay soil that Navajo weavers use to bring a brightness to the wool used for rugs. The forked hogan has a beautiful rug over the entrance.

Lo, yonder the hogan, the hogan blessed. There beneath the sunrise standeth the hogan, the hogan blessed. Built of dawn's first light standeth his hogan, the hogan blessed. Built of holy pollen standeth his hogan, the hogan blessed. Evermore enduring, happy evermore, his hogan, the hogan blessed. kkk-from Song of the Hogans, Dinè (Navajo)

VERSE: Nigham Bik'ihoídlí (May Your Home Be Blessed)*
*Navajo Language