A Navajo/Dine Germantown blanket
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Description
1904
With twelve sampler panels sewn to create one large textile, comprising two whirling logs, two cross motif panels, and a red and green whirling log on a black field dated 1904
75" L x 59" W
Provenance: Property of Colonel Robert C. Wallace, Southern California, through decent in the family.
Notes: The individual samplers were selected by the purchaser to create a bed spread in his Princeton dorm room in 1905. Apparently, Navajo textiles were the fashion of the day for Princeton Alumn.
With twelve sampler panels sewn to create one large textile, comprising two whirling logs, two cross motif panels, and a red and green whirling log on a black field dated 1904
75" L x 59" W
Provenance: Property of Colonel Robert C. Wallace, Southern California, through decent in the family.
Notes: The individual samplers were selected by the purchaser to create a bed spread in his Princeton dorm room in 1905. Apparently, Navajo textiles were the fashion of the day for Princeton Alumn.
Condition
Overall good condition with typical signs of wear commensurate with age and use. Issues include, but not limited to: one corner tassel missing, few pulled stitches, and scattered areas of loose stitches/fraying to joined panels and at selvage edges.
Side A: scattered minor soiling/staining throughout, light fading.
Side B: Scattered minor soiling/staining.
Side A: scattered minor soiling/staining throughout, light fading.
Side B: Scattered minor soiling/staining.
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A Navajo/Dine Germantown blanket
Estimate $4,000 - $6,000
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