Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name)
4. Visual Works (hierarchy name)
5. visual works (works)
6. [visual works by function]
7. religious visual works

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Visual and Verbal Communication
4. Visual Works
5. visual works
6. visual works by material or technique
7. paintings
8. paintings by material or technique

Anotations

Scope note:

Designs created by pouring colored sands, powdered pigments from minerals or crystals, or pigments from other natural or synthetic sources onto a surface to make a fixed or unfixed image. They are often made on the ground or the floor rather than on a separate support. Unfixed sand paintings are created or used in religious and healing rituals by various groups, including Navajo, Pueblo, and Zuni in North America, Australian Aborigines, Tibetans, Japanese, and Hindus in various nations. Sand paintings may be fixed, often with works of relatively small size for sale to the tourist trade.