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Lot 435

A Navajo sand painting rug

6 – 7 June 2016, 11:00 PDT
San Francisco

Sold for US$6,000 inc. premium

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A Navajo sand painting rug

Sarah Paul Begay, very finely woven to depict a medicine chant, four armored spirit beings, possibly Horny Toad people, stand about the center wielding lightning and arrows, emblematic imagery throughout, surrounded on three sides by a Rainbow goddess.
size approximately 5ft 9in x 6ft 1in

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Compares Favorably
Kaufman, Alice and Selser, Christopher, 1985, p. 124, ill. 199, for a sandpainting rug woven by Anna May Tanner with the precise same design as seen in the present lot, suggested to be a representation of a chant from the Windway ceremony.

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