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Navajo Sand Painting Rug

Currency:USD Category:Antiques Start Price:5,000.00 USD Estimated At:10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD
Navajo Sand Painting Rug
71" x 67" red, blue, yellow, black and white on a tan field. Depicts the Nightway Chant, Holy People deities, and sacred plants surrounding a whirling logs axis, with a Rainbow goddess enclosing the scene from three sides. Fine, condition, c mid-twentieth century. Attributed to Mrs. Sam (Gladys) Manuelito, the niece of the famous Navajo medicine man and weaver, Hosteen Klah, who taught Gladys and her sister Irene sandpainting weaving. Mrs. Manuelito rightly deserves the designation as one of the most seminal weavers of this genre, and certainly after Klah, the most well-known.