The Awakening
PENDLETON®
Legendary Wool Blanket
The THE AWAKENING
PENDLETON® Legendary Wool Blanket

Throughout Native American culture, the transition from girl to womanhood is celebrated in a highly symbolic ceremony that teaches the adolescent girl of her heritage, emphasizing her physical and spiritual transformation into an individual with responsabilities within the tribe and allows time for inner reflection.

The AWAKENING Legendary Wool Blanket draws its inspiration from Navajo Kinalda Ceremony, which incorporates song, dance and rituals emphasizing the tribes traditions.
Corn grinding and the baking of a large corn cake in a corn husk basket teaches the girl to understand and cater to her people. The sprinkling of corn pollen on the baked cake symbolizes fertility, nourishment and beauty. The washing of the girl's hair and painting of her body are designed to aid her walk through womanhood.
Racing in specific directions each day attunes the girl to her physical strenght and endurance emphasizing the cycles of the days, seasons and life.
Each of these rituals prepares her for the role she will take upon rejoining the tribe as a woman.

By symbolically recreating important aspects of these four days of ritual, The AWAKENING PENDLETON® Legendary Wool Blanket honors
maturity, responsibility and spiritual heritage.

Size 64 x 80 inches.
Composition: 82% wool; 18% cotton warp.