A Navajo Sheepherder and medicine man, Charlie Willeto began carving in 1960, just four years before his death. He is now one of the best recognized Navajo folk artists. The book, "Charlie Willeto: The Visionary Carvings of a Navajo Artist" describes his work as "ritualist figures of human and animal forms that carry the potency of the Navajo spirit while transcending to the realm of the mythic."
