Description:
Navajo Classic Woman's Dress, finely woven in two panels, both ends with a stepped diamond banded pattern flanking an open center, in raveled cochineal and lac dyed red, indigo, green, and natural yarns, each panel 50 x 34 in.
Literature: Illustrated in Pleasing the Spirits, Douglas Ewing, p. 201, No. 194, "Woman's Dress, Navajo, c. 1860."
Estimate $15,000-20,000
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