A Navajo late classic chief's blanket
Woven in a third phase pattern, with a nine-spot arrangement of concentric and conjoined diamonds or diamond halves overlaid on the banded ground, in aniline and cochineal-dyed raveled red, indigo and natural yarns.
size approximately 4ft 6in x 5ft 1in
size approximately 4ft 6in x 5ft 1in
Sold for
US$ 22,500
inc. premium
Footnotes
- Provenance:
Albert Winfield Florea, a schoolteacher in "Indian country" around the turn of the twentieth century; remained in the family for several generations spanning over a hundred years; Mark Sublette, Medicine Man Gallery, Tucson
Category: Ethnographic Art / Native American
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Jim Haas
Bonhams
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Ingmars Lindbergs
Bonhams
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220 San Bruno Avenue
San Francisco,
94103
United States
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+1 415 503 3393
FaxFax: +1 415 503 3300
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Native American