Attractive Hand spun Wool, Full Size Saddle Blanket
- The design incorporates three colors of natural wool
- The orange and green are soft natural vegetal dyes. Only the red is a commercial dye
- The simple stripes are reminiscent of the earliest Navajo weavings with a nice border design giving interest to the textile
- All four corner tassels are intact, as are the side rug cords
- There are no holes and the condition is good though the piece has been used
- It has been cleaned
- Measures 5'3" long x 2'4" wide
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Textiles Circa 1920s - 1940s Rare Hopi Dress
- Traditionally woven only by Hopi men for a woman to be worn on her marriage
- Used carefully on special occasions during her lifetime and saved for her to be buried in
- Thus very few of these weavings are in private hands
- Center portion of weaving is a black wool with a valley and mountain design, shown by raised linear lines (as pictured)
- 6 1/4" borders are an intricate triple diamond pattern (as pictured)
- Trimmed in commercial green and red yarn
- Sides fastened into manta dress with same red yarn
- This piece was acquired at Zuni, Pueblo by nearby Murphy's Trading Post in Vanderwagon
- Sharon Murphy is a forth generation trader to the Zunis
- Dress is tubular
- 27 1/2" wide x 41" long
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Textiles circa 1890s - 1910 Transitional Rug
- Yei-Bei-Chei pattern with highly sought after cochineal dye, a pre-Hispanic red dye made of insects found on cactus
- Cochineal dye was a trade item in early times between the New World and Spain
- The Yei-Bei-Chei figures carry prayer wands, have long dangling turquoise earrings and turquoise jaclaa necklaces; these figures are depictions of ancestral spirits and are used in healing
- Blue-green dye is sage
- Browns, blacks, grays, and whites are natural hand-spun wool
- Only the orange could be a commercial dye but it is also variegated in color and may be a vegetable dye
- Rug has lazy lines
- The rug is not symmetrical along bottom edge
- All four tassels are present
- 4' x 4'10"
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1940s Tight Tapestry Weave Navajo Rug
- Depicts ancestral Blue-Faced Yei-Bei-Chei figures surrounded by a rainbow-like Blue-Faced Yei
- Excellent condition, no holes, very tight weave, symmetrical
- All tassels and cords are in perfect condition
- 2' 6 1/2" x 4'5"
- Piece is in perfect condition
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Vintage Large Double Sunday Saddle Blanket
- Interesting combination of commercial wool and hand-spun native wool
- Ornate double tassels on all four corners
- Good condition
- Has been used but no holes
- A few worn stitches
- Very interesting pattern
- 30 1/2" x 4' 5"
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- Tightly woven wool rug
- The grey is handspun, native wool
- The natural white, black and rich chocolate browns are trading post acquired yarns
- The rug is in excellent condition with all cords and end tassels intact and perfectly symmetrical
- The rug is 22" wide x 29" long
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This Amazing Button Blanket With Accompanying Clan Totem Flags Was Designed About 1990 By Well Known Tlingit Artist, Oden Lonning And John Bonner Strong
- It was hand sewn by Linda Beck
- It is beautiful, red and black, soft, supple felted wool
- All the buttons are mother of pearl and abalone shell
- There are several amazing hand hammered, embossed, copper plates which act as eyes on the main figures
- The top of the blanket has a rod pocket (hem) through which the piece can be displayed at Indian powwows, traditional feasts and canoe races with the accompanying four flags, which give the owner's clan lineage on the tops of the poles
- This blanket set was entered in the O'odom Tosh Fair in 1992 and won several top awards
- Ribbons have been lost, but research can prove provenance at this 1992 event in Casa Grande, Arizona
- The event was judged by prestigious author, Barton Wright, Former curator of San Diego's Museum of Man and the Arizona State Museum
- The blanket measures 6' wide x 5' long
- Bird pole covers, which both face opposite directions measure 19 5/8" wide x 16" long for the larger flags
- Smaller flags measure 6 3/4" wide x 13" long
- The piece was purchased from retired silversmith, John Bonner Strong
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All Natural Handspun Wool
- Natural white background with beautiful vegetal dyed, burnt orange hues interspersed with natural dark brown, grey and vegetal dyed tan
- A double serrated diamond design forms the central motif
- Simple 4-directional designs form the center of these pieces
- The design is carried out as halves along the edge of each rug
- Three simple bands of the same colors edge the rug
- All four tassels are intact
- Condition is good and it is symmetrical
- The rug is 19 1/2" wide x 37" long
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- This traditional Navajo dress is the equivalent of two matching hand woven Navajo blankets. However, one must be woven as the neck flap, for this piece is not cut but woven as part of the textile
- The two separate weavings are then carefully whip stitched together with the rugs identical yarn to fasten up the sides, leaving armholes and side slits on the skirt
- The white is all natural handspun wool with the red and the black being trading post-purchased woolen yarns
- There is a simple serrated stepped diamond design carried over from top to the bottom
- The top head slit folds back and is fastened with two lovely old German silver Navajo handmade pins from the 1930s to 1940s
- Two larger Navajo cluster pins adorn the bottom of the neckline in the Navajo cluster silversmith style
- The top brooch is definitely the oldest with handmade bezels on the stones
- The bottom brooch appears newer and has a large natural turquoise nugget in the center surrounded by repousse and edged stamped scallops
- All three of these large brooches are German silver and not sterling
- A beautiful old double-weave vintage sash of Navajo wool encircles the waste and is pinned with a 6th brooch of German silver and Kingman turquoise
- The brooch is unstamped and dates, at least, to the 1950s
- The sash and dress are both in fabulous condition and the dress was made for a large woman
- The piece hangs 4' long x 2' wide
- For reference, the larger of the two neckline pins is 1 1/4" in diameter
- The largest brooch below the neck slit is 3 3/8" long x 2 1/2" wide
- All of these pins are stitched onto the dress as well as being pinned on
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This Small Rug Is A Good Example Of Navajo Weaving And Design
- The beige is all natural handspun wool
- The four central figures of the design are tightly woven and well matched
- the ornate border makes the rug appear larger than it is
- This rug was woven by a skilled craftswoman and is very symmetrical
- There are no holes
- Condition is excellent and all four end tassels are present
- The rug is 2 ' 3/4" long x 1' 5 3/8" wide
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A Perfect Example In Great Condition Of A Chimayo Weaving
- These textiles were woven in the tiny village of Chimayo, New Mexico which was settled by descendants of the first Spanish colonists to the New World. It was established as a rug weaving center using the horizontal Mexican looms brought from Mexico
- Both the warp and weft of this rug is wool
- This heavy supple rug has the corner designs one would expect on a fine Mexican saltillo and the simple stripes borrowed from Navajo rugs
- The wool is handspun Navajo churro sheep wool from their Navajo neighbors
- The rug has the fringed edges associated with the Navajo looms. The upright Navajo looms do not produce this style of edge
- The colors are natural gray, white and brown and a soft red
- The weaver was excellent: there is a variegated brown/red, brown/white, and red/white stripe
- It is wonderful condition with a few spots showing on the wool which is most likely discoloration in the white wool itself
- The rug, not including fringe, measures 4' 8" long x 2' 7" wide
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A Bandolier Bag Worn Across The Chest By Navajo Yei Bei Chei Dancers, Personifying The Protective Ancestral Spirits
- The rug is made of two small individual Navajo weavings of handspun wool using natural vegetal dyes
- The red and coral areas of the rug are nicely variegated in color
- The piece is formed into a bag utilizing braintanned buckskin
- The pocket of the bag is half the size of the flap, as is common with Navajo medicine man's bags
- The small pouch is made to contain fetishes and feathers
- The beautiful vintage German silver brooch attached to the bag front dates from the 1940s or 1950s
- It is stitched onto the bag as well as being pinned
- The handle of the bag is an old hand tooled leather belt with buckskin fringes decorating what were once the belt cinch holes
- The pocket of the bag measures 6" x 11 1/4"
- With the flap of the bag down, it measures 11 1/4" x 11 1/2" wide
- With the handle of the bag, it measures 2' 8 1/2" long
- The Navajo brooch decorating the front of the bag  measures 1 7/8" in diameter
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This Navajo Rug Has A Really Great Ocher Or Blood Red Color To It
- It has the older style of stripes in handspun brown and grey wool
- The serrated diamond patterns are an arresting color of deep purple, dark brown and white
- The piece gives the lovely colors of a desert sunset
- It is well woven, symmetrical in shape, with all four corners intact
- It has no holes and is in perfect condition
- It is 3' 1/2" x 2' 1"
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A Nice Example Of A Pictorial Rug Of Handspun Navajo Churro Sheep Wool
- A spotted brown horse looks up at us in a foreground speckled with small desert plants
- Behind him, rises towering mesas of red rock and a perfectly balanced blue sky with grey clouds
- All four tassels are intact
- It is in perfect condition
- It contains an old trading post tag which identifies the weaver as Annie Begay from Many Farms, Arizona on the Navajo Reservation
- The rug is 1' 6" wide x 1' 11" long
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Nice Old Saddle Blanket Of Hand-spun Wool
- Has all four corner tassels, no holes, and is nicely symmetrical
- This rug has an all wool warp which is an indication of its age
- Very interesting zigzag stripes of two colors make up the design elements on the main portion of the rug divided by solid black and natural white wool bands
- Lightning-like designs in the four corners of the saddle blanket bring out the color of the middle designs
- A heavier black line bands both edges
- Nice condition and some lazy lines are within the weaving
- Both sides are equal brightness
- Measures 5'3" long x 2'5" wide
- There appears to be a nickel-sized area with an old Native repair that is not really visible
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Small Soft Navajo Rug In A Dazzler Pattern, Possibly A Small Pony Saddle Blanket
- There is a very pretty combination of two shades of natural brown and the delightful soft tomato red/orange that is found in the older transitional blankets
- These colors are highlighted on a very clean background of natural white, with insets of black wool and blue/purple stipe
- The very simple addition of this stripe sets off all the natural dyes and brings to mind the colors of the desert
- All of the colors, except for the white, have a great deal of variegation
- This vibrant rug is woven in the serrated diamond "Dazzler" pattern
- There are no holes but the textile was probably washed at some point in its use and is irregular along its longest edges as can be seen in the pictures
- The rug measures 3' 1 1/2" x 1' 5 1/2"
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This Marvelous Navajo Child's Outfit Is All Priced Individually
- It is comprised of a 1960s Navajo handwoven wool child's Manta (dress) - $195
- A1940s Navajo sash - $90
-  A 1960s Navajo moccasins with sterling conchos - $195
- And a smaller Navajo sterling necklace with repousse beads and turquoise - $195
- The dress is comprised of two Navajo rugs carefully laced together leaving sleeve holes, a neck hole, and slits in both sides. These dresses are traditionally woven by grandmothers for their granddaughters
- This dress is a beautiful combination of black and red with cloud designs and is tightly woven and in perfect condition
- The dress was pawned in a trading post on the Navajo Reservation and bares a pawn ticket
- There are tassels on all six corners
- The dress is 15" wide x 25 1/2" long
- The V-shaped front neckline was woven to be opened out and is not merely slit
- The corners of this collar have attractive tassels
- The conchos are 1" stamped sterling silver with natural turquoise
- The sash is a beautiful old Germantown yarn very finely and tightly woven in the ornate weave that produces a double sided pattern
- On the one side, the pattern is raised and very 3-dimensional
- It is in white, red and purple, the white being a cotton warp
- The sash is 76" long, including the fringe which is 9 1/2" x 2 5/8" wide
- The moccasins are the traditional Navajo style boot with a heavy rawhide sole, brown dyed uppers, and are closed with a braintanned thong and a scalloped, stamped sterling silver concho
- The concho is 3/4" in diameter
- The moccasins are 7 3/4" long x 2 5/8" wide x 4 1/2" tall
- They have seen moderate use and have a nice patina with no damage
- The smaller Naja necklace is made of hand made sterling silver repoussed beads and small nuggets of Arizona turquoise showing mostly brown matrix
- The sandcast Naja has simple old stamp work and chiseling on it
- It appears to be a 1930s - 1940s piece and we have had it re-strung for stability with a sterling finding
- The Naja is 1 5/8" long x 1 1/2" wide
- The necklace beads are 20" long
- With the Naja the piece hangs 11" long
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Vintage Navajo Vest
- Interesting Navajo textile
- This boy's vest is actually woven in one piece; it is not cut and pieced together as can be seen in the photos
- All natural hand-spun wool with crocheted buttons of same material
- Dazzler pattern in stark brown, black and white
- Perfect condition
- 17 1/2" long x 16 1/2" wide
- Age is hard to determine but this is not a contemporary piece
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Tightly Woven Handspun Wool Navajo Saddle Blanket Made Within The Last 30 Years
- The warp of this rug is cotton
- A very ornate "Dazzler" pattern of three sections separated by geometric bands
- The intricacy of the geometric design makes this rug appear far larger than it is
- The colors are all natural wool except for the bright tomato red
- Condition is perfect, all four tassels are in place
- This rug is an excellent example of contemporary traditional Navajo weaving
- It measures 3' 4" long x 19 1/2" wide
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- Textiles Circa 1960s from 2nd Mesa, Arizona
- Very finely woven commercial wool dress with all detailing of yarn patterns in commercial yarn
- Fits an infant
- Traditional one shouldered Hopi style dress
- 13" wide x 13" long
- Refer to (bk-16) in the Baskets category to view a Hopi Cradleboard Doll that fits this Manta dress perfectly
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1900 - 1920s All Wool Northwest Coast Family Crest Button Blanket
- The blanket has been dated by the old red and black trade wool blanket which is the base for this beautiful family crest piece
- The totem or clan protector animals shown are a Thunderbird atop a large Whale figure
- All of the buttons are mother of pearl. These are family heirloom buttons, there are no synthetic buttons among them
- Some of these vintage buttons are hand carved
- The navy blue overlay is also wool, both the overlay and the buttons are stitched only with heavy cotton cordage or thread
- The blanket is fastened at the neck with a lovely twisted and pounded Fur Trade era, hand forged 3" x 2 1/2" iron brooch
- The blanket is 6' 3" wide x 4' 7" long
- The condition of the blanket is excellent
- There are no holes and only a few slight wear spots which can be seen in the pictures
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- This rug is a forerunner of the more modern Tree-Of-Life Navajo rugs
- 1920s Navajo handspun wool
- All colors are natural except for the red which is variegated beautifully in color
- All four tassels and cordage are intact
- There is a small 1" repair to the warp with cotton thread on one of the rug borders
- Four birds sit within serrated geometric designs on a long bar or tree
- The rug has been professionally cleaned and doesn't seem to have an A or B side
- It has nice lazy lines in the weaving which can be discerned in the close up pictures
- The rug is 2' 5" wide x 4' 10" long
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This Is A Lovely Small Example Of Fine Navajo Weaving, Color And Design
- The beige and gray are handspun Navajo wool
- The rug is very tightly woven, symmetrical, and in perfect condition
- Due to the tight, large geometric design the rug appears larger than it is
- All four end tassels are intact
- The rug is 2' 2" long x 1' 5 1/4" wide
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This rug is all handspun Navajo wool of native sheep utilizing the natural colors in a complicated geometric design
- The rug is in perfect condition, very symmetrical, with all four corner tassels and cords being intact
- It measures 3' 6" x 2' 4"
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A Charming Shoulder Bag Made Of Two Authentic Navajo Rugs Of Handspun Wool Which Have Been Laced Together With Braintanned Buckskin To Make The Bag
- The handle is a heavily brass-studded leather belt
- The four belt holes have been laced with a collection of old vintage brass buttons as would be done on a concho belt
- An extension of the handle has been made by attaching with a thong, a portion of another handtooled black leather belt
- The strap is 1 1/2" wide
- The bag measures 1' x 11 1/2" without the fringed corners
- Entire bag, including handle and fringe hangs 3' 1" long
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It Is Unusual For These Cotton Manta Dresses To Fall Into The Hands Of Private Collectors
- These dresses are entirely hand woven by Hopi male weavers, of whom there are only a handful of left
- These dresses are woven  for the woman's wedding ceremony, then carefully kept throughout their lifetime to be used as a burial dress
- The dress is entirely handspun native Hopi-grown cotton
- On the upper two corners, which would constitute the edge of the sleeve is a 3 1/2" woven pattern of mustard colored dye which end in the peculiarly Hopi style of round tassel
- The center of the tassel is cornhusk as is found on the hopi rain sashes
- This old dress still maintains a New Mexico trading post pawn ticket which shows that the dress was pawned by a Second Mesa Hopi woman at Perry Null's Trading Post
- Perry Null said it is the first one of these Hopi dresses that he has ever taken in pawn through his very large, well established trading post
- The dress is a single large textile worn folded along its length and belted
- At present there is no stitching holding the sides together and it can be opened out flat if the neck strings are opened up
- Folded in half, as it would be as a dress, the piece is 35" wide (70" if opened) x 4' long
- This was not a dress for small woman
- The cotton is in perfect condition
- The tassels are worn and there are some use marks on the dress, which would most likely come off if it was dry cleaned. But we like the use patina
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