A Navajo late classic Moki blanket
Alternating design panels of diagonal stripes with ticked solid color bands, overlaid on the finely striped ground, using indigo-dyed wool, two shades of ravelled red, the darker of the two a mix of lac and cochineal, the other with synthetic dye, commercial and handspun yarns, restored.
size approximately 5ft 4in x 4ft
size approximately 5ft 4in x 4ft
Sold for
US$ 13,200
inc. premium
Footnotes
- Provenance:
The Fred Harvey Collection, an affixed Museum inventory label reading "33-1417".
Lot heading
Sold by order of the Trustees of the William Rockhill Nelson Trust, Kansas City, Missouri
Category: Ethnographic Art / Native American
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