Nellie Tsosie Pinon Cream and Navajo Healing Ointment. Nellie makes the traditional Pinon Cream that we sell in the gallery. She hand harvests the sap from the Pinon trees, mixes it with coconut oil and vitamin E to create a hand cream that will cure cuts, bites, dryness. Pinon sap has long been used as a medicine by the Navajo. Painter Clifford Brycelea used it to treat his son’s ear infections. And it worked. Anyway, in our dry climate, nothing will keep your skin moist like Nellie’s cream.
We have been visiting and shopping at Toh-Atin for over twenty years. Always loved visiting with Jackson and his mother. We would spend hours gathering information on rugs, jewelry, and baskets- what a tremendous inventory. Everyone was so knowledgeable. We have so many memorable pieces. Jackson asked my husband, " How often do you get compliments on your tie?" We bought a very nice bolo! :)
We had just seen and visited with Jackson two weeks earlier and were so saddened and shocked to hear of his passing. What a loss to friends, family, and community. Our deepest condolences to his family and to the staff.
Layne and Liz Puls, Boerne, TX
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