Horn Snake Priest

Details

Carl Oscar Borg (1879-1947)
Horn Snake Priest
signed and inscribed 'Carl.Oscar.Borg/ORA IBI' (lower left)
watercolor, gouache and pencil on paper
11½ x 9 in. (29.2 x 22.9 cm.)

Provenance

The artist.
Mrs. A.S. Baldwin, 1917.
Zaplin Lampert Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Mitchell Brown Fine Art, Inc., Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Exhibited

San Francisco, California, San Francisco Art Association, 1917, no. 4.

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Lot Essay

Although the site of the present-day village is not original, Oraibi, established in 1100 A.D., is considered the oldest continuously inhabited settlement in North America. Oraibi was long the most important pueblo of the Hopi, but because of economic disturbances and internal dissension many of the inhabitants left in 1907 to form the pueblos of Hotevila and Bakavi.

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