A Navajo late classic chief's blanket
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
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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