Daisy Taugelchee
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Daisy Taugelchee | |
|---|---|
| Born | c. 1909 |
| Died | September 8, 1990 |
| Known for | Textile weaving |
| Style | Two Grey Hills |
Daisy Taugelchee (c. 1909 – September 8, 1990) was a Navajo weaver. The Denver Art Museum declared Taugelchee as "widely considered the most talented Navajo weaver and spinner who ever lived".[1] In 2004 one of her rugs was featured on a United States Postal Service stamp.
Various dates are given for Taugelchee's birth, including 1909,[2] circa 1910,[3] 1911,[4] and circa 1920.[5] In her obituary, her birth date was given as April 4, 1909.[6] She was born on the Navajo Nation reservation in Arizona.[5]
Taugelchee's paternal grandmother was an accomplished weaver known as Sagebrush Hill Woman, herself one of the best of the early Toadlena/Two Grey Hills weavers.[4] Taugelchee's sister was also a well-regarded weaver.[7] Taugelchee's mother died in childbirth when she was six years old, and her father died when she was eleven.[4] In her youth, Daisy was known as Little Man's Daughter (Hastiin Yazhi Bitsi) and was given the name Daisy Marion Yazzie when she went to school.[4] She attended Albuquerque Indian School for a few years and Phoenix Indian School for another two years.[4]
In her twenties, she married a man named Chee Taugelchee.[4] They had three children, Chee Jr., Chester, and Janie Norris.[7]
She stopped weaving in her later years, but continued assisting the weaving projects of her daughter-in-law, Priscilla Taugelchee.[8] Taugelchee died September 8, 1990, in Farmington, New Mexico.[6]
