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A Navajo Figural Wood Sculpture Charlie Willeto

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A Navajo Figural Wood Sculpture Charlie Willeto

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A Navajo Figural Wood Sculpture Charlie Willeto c. 1964 depicting an owl, wood, paint "Among [Charlie Willeto's] carved animals, owls were frequent subjects. Willeto owls are anthropomorphic, most with large wide eyes and moustaches that endow them simultaneously with authority and enigmatic, playful humor. Some have trapezoidal, others rectangular, and still others, rounded heads. The owl has both good and bad connotations in Navajo mythology, "Kogan, Lee, "An Ordered Universe: The Art of Willeto," in Collective Willeto: The Visionary Carvings of a Navajo Artist, Shonto Begay, Walter Hopps, Lee Kogan, Greg LaChapelle, Museum of New Mexico Press, Santa Fe, 2002, pg. 15. Height: 16 ½ inches HID03101062020 © 2020 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved

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A Navajo Figural Wood Sculpture Charlie Willeto

Name: A Navajo Figural Wood Sculpture Charlie Willeto
SKU: 105934893
Price: 2200 USD
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