拍品 151
  • 151

Classic Pueblo Blanket, probably Acoma

估價
25,000 - 35,000 USD
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描述

  • wool
finely twill-woven in handspun and ravelled bayeta wool, in shades of lac (?) and cochineal dyed red and rich indigo blue, with an overall banded design overlaid with stripes; three panels woven with a diamond-twill technique.    

來源

Forrest Fenn, Santa Fe, NM

Condition

Overall very good condition with typical wear for its age including some areas of exposed warp. Minor/light staining consistent with age and use.
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拍品資料及來源

Accompanying the blanket is a letter from Dr. Robert Sayers, formerly of the Smithsonian and responsible for cataloguing the museum's Pueblo Culture Collection, wherein he writes: "I remember deciding that the piece...was a man's shirt without a head hole cut through. An identical piece is shown in the DAM (Denver Art Museum) leaflet 94-95, ("Main Types of Pueblo Woolen Textiles") p. 174. Another piece in the Field Museum is illustrated in North American Indian Arts (Whitefield and Zim), p. 68. Those examples and the Fenn shirt (the subject lot) are very likely the only extant specimens. What pueblo they're associated with or in what context they were worn I don't yet know. But they certainly are interesting!"

For related examples see Fane, Jacknis, and Green, page 126, Plate 105, for a child's twilled poncho, Zuni, circa 1800, in the Brooklyn Museum of Arts,(#03.325.3373) and Coe, fig. 631 for a child's twilled poncho, Hopi, circa 1800, in the collection of the Denver Art Museum (#RHc-37). Another comparable example is in The Heard Museum, Phoenix.