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dataBV[1] = new data("images/collaboration/bv01_l.jpg","<font><strong>Virginia Yazzie Ballenger</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;November 1998<br><br>&quot;My Name is Virginia Yazzie Ballenger. I am a member of the Navajo Nation. We're also known as Diné, which means the people.<br>I live in Gallup, New Mexico, and have been designing clothing for 14 years now. My first memory of designing clothing was when I was about five years old. I had a paper doll that I played with a lot and a clothing catalog from Montgomery Ward or Sears and I would look through that catalog and take plain paper and make clothes for my paper doll.&quot;</font>")
dataBV[2] = new data("images/collaboration/bv02_l.jpg","<font>&quot;I went to Texas Women's University to study pattern-making and the rest I learned as I went along. When I went to school to study a vocation I thought I was going to be a secretary.<br>During my high school years I became involved in Indian Queen pageants and I subsequently held six different titles, the last of which was Miss Indian New Mexico. These titles required me to travel a lot, and my mother and aunt would sew my clothes. My mother eventually taught me how to sew the velvet and satin shirts.&quot;</font>")
dataBV[3] = new data("images/collaboration/bv03_l.jpg","<font>&quot;I can remember when I was very young I used to see my grandmother wearing the old velvet blouses with a lot of silver on them. Gradually, throughtout the 1970s and 1980s you saw less and less of the older Navajo women wearing the old velvet blouses with all the silver. I missed seeing that. I remember the beautiful clothing. When I learned how to sew I wanted to recreate some of those blouses.&quot;</font>")
dataBV[4] = new data("images/collaboration/bv04_l.jpg","<font>&quot;I took a basic sewing class and found it was a hobby I enjoyed. I'd come home in the evenings from my secretarial job and go down to the basement and sew for hours. I would create clothing that I had no chance of selling if I were to charge an hourly fee. I would create just for the beauty of it.&quot;</font>")
dataBV[5] = new data("images/collaboration/bv05_l.jpg","<font>&quot;In the evenings I would create clothing and on the weekends I would travel to Indian art shows in the Southwest. I would exhibit my clothing at various markets such as the Colorado Institute, and the Santa Fe Indian Market. I was encouraged by the first and second place ribbons my creations were awarded.&quot;</font>")
dataBV[6] = new data("images/collaboration/bv06_l.jpg","<font>&quot;Eventually my husband and I invested in some sewing equipment and went into business creating Southwest Indian fashions. We set up shop in the basement of our home in Gallup. As the business grew we were able to relocate to a larger facility. I've tried to create clothing that is not necessarily traditional, but a more contemporary style with an influence of traditional Navajo design.&quot;</font>")
dataBV[7] = new data("images/collaboration/bv07_l.jpg","<font>&quot;This piece is called Essence of Navajo Women. The original design had silver storyteller buttons. On each of the buttons there was a Navajo lady doing different chores. On the first button was her profile, on the second she was holding her baby, on the next one she was weaving a rug, on the fourth button she was tending a lamb, on the fifth one she was riding a horse. On the last button she was bringing in her laundry. The stairstep design on the skirt is done in patchwork and represents the mountains. I also designed a little evening bag to go with it.&quot;</font>")
dataBV[8] = new data("images/collaboration/bv08_l.jpg","<font>&quot;This velvet two-piece dress is a child's dress. I refer to it as a traditional Navajo dress. It's done in crushed velvet and the buttons are handmade sterling silver. A long time ago, before the Navajo women had access to scissors, the fabric was torn into rectangles and sewn together by hand. The pintucking was used at that time to give shape to the garment. The scallop hem and the front pocket are decorated with handmade sterling silver buttons. The collar has handmade sterling silver points.<br><br>This style of dress was adapted after the Navajo were held in captivity at Fort Sumner, New Mexico in the 1860s. The skirt style emulated the full skirts the Army wives wore at that time. This was part of a two dress set.&quot;</font>")
dataBV[9] = new data("images/collaboration/bv09_l.jpg","<font>&quot;I call this dress Navajo Elegance. It's made of ultrasuede and is a modern adaptation of the rug dress. All of the designs are individually cut pieces and then appliquéd on top of each other. The belt is fringed and decorated with animal fetishes. This can be worn with a pair of black shoes for an evening out or with a pair moccasins for a more traditional look.&quot;</font>")
dataBV[10] = new data("images/collaboration/bv10_l.jpg","<font>&quot;This piece is called the Monument Valley Set. It's done in three different color combinations. I made the different styles to represent different points of interest on the reservation, with the thought to eventually create a catalog that could be used as a tool to educate people about our area. This top is a Tsaile blouse and the design is taken from a three piece hide dress. The skirt has a stairstep inse; these designs are found in many of the handwoven Navajo rugs. My grandmother is a rug weaver and I borrow her designs and translate them into my clothing.&quot;</font>")
dataBV[11] = new data("images/collaboration/bv11_l.jpg","<font>&quot;I'm very encouraged by the support of the Navajo people. I would like to be at the forefront in forging a path into the fashion world for young Navajo women. I want to be a role-model; to be able to say: Yes! This is possible.<br>There are other cultures and people from other walks of life that can appreciate the beauty of our clothing. I try to make the clothing functional and something that can be worn not only to dances and ceremonies, but to a banquet or the opera.&quot;</font>")
dataBV[12] = new data("images/collaboration/bv12_l.jpg","<font>&quot;What I'm attempting to accomplish with my residency in New York is to see some samples of the earliest Indian clothing. I'd like to find old leather garments and some of the woven rug dresses and make replicas of them. When presenting a show I can say, for example, this is what the Navajo people were wearing in 1800. At the moment I am concentrating on Navajo designs, but I would like to do a Sioux collection, an Arapaho collection, and so forth.&quot;</font>")
dataBV[13] = new data("images/collaboration/bv13_l.jpg","<font>&quot;This piece is called Dezbah Carries on Tradition. It's a life-size Navajo doll in a velvet dress highlighted with silver buttons, sitting at a Navajo loom. This soft doll sculpture received best of division at the Heard Museum and first place at the Intertribal Indian Ceremonial.&quot;</font>")
dataBV[14] = new data("images/collaboration/bv14_l.jpg","<font>&quot;This set is a purple velvet Navajo blouse and calico skirt. It has pintucking in a stairstep design down the front, and it's accented with handmade sliver buttons and a mandarin collar. The cotton calico skirt is sewn in a three tiered full skirt style and decorated with ric rac.&quot;</font>")
dataBV[15] = new data("images/collaboration/bv15_l.jpg","<font>&quot;This is a Tsaile blouse in teal crushed velvet. The blouse and pleated velvet skirt are trimmed in turquoise nuggets. The shoulder bag is black leather decorated with sterling silver buttons.&quot;</font>")
dataBV[16] = new data("images/collaboration/bv16_l.jpg","<font>&quot;This is called the Whitewater Set. The wrap skirt and vest are done in purple crushed velvet. It fastens with nickel concho buttons. Notice the subtle stairstep detailing on the front edge.&quot;</font>")
dataBV[17] = new data("images/collaboration/bv17_l.jpg","<font>&quot;This is the Crystal Set. This Navajo vest is done in tapestry fabric and has a stairstep velvet collar. This vest can reverse to velvet, then you can flip the collar over and you'll have a stairstep collar in the tapestry fabric. It's worn with the red Chaco blouse and a black velvet pleated skirt.&quot;</font>")
dataBV[18] = new data("images/collaboration/bv18_l.jpg","<font>&quot;This velvet two piece dress is trimmed with sterling sliver butterfly pins and small silver buttons.&quot;</font>")
dataBV[19] = new data("images/collaboration/bv19_l.jpg","<font>&quot;This Wide Ruins Set is done in crushed velvet. The blouse has silver studs on the mandarin collar, tapered hemline and cuffs.&quot;</font>")
dataBV[20] = new data("images/collaboration/bv20_l.jpg","<font>&quot;This Tsaile blouse in brown crushed velvet is accented with cowry shells on the bodice and sleeves. The skirt is three-tiered and pleated.&quot;</font>")
dataBV[21] = new data("images/collaboration/bv21_l.jpg","<font>&quot;This is a traditional Navajo velvet skirt and blouse. This blouse is decorated with 1940's Mercury dimes fashioned into buttons. In the early 1900s the Navajo women would decorate their blouses with coins. I have been told it was a method of safekeeping and it represented how wealthy your family was.&quot;</font>")
dataBV[22] = new data("images/collaboration/bv22_l.jpg","<font>&quot;When I return to Gallup to do my community projects, I plan to create a photo exhibit at one of the galleries in town. I'd like to focus on the clothing and jewelry pieces I found in the museum collections during my stay in New York. My other project will be to present a fashion show; probably at the University of New Mexico. I'll create a line of garments influenced by the clothing artifacts I saw at the museums here. I enjoyed visiting New York, but more importantly, I enjoyed the opportunity to research Native American clothing.&quot;</font>")

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