Lot Essay
Cf. For a similar example see Harmsen, 1985, pg. 57, fig. 83.
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A NAVAJO PICTORIAL "SAND PAINTING" RUG
Finely woven in green, black, yellow, cream, maroon, blue and brown against a light grey ground, probably representing the Whirling Logs sand painting from the Nightway Chant, composed of a pair of "Talking God" figures with full feather headdresses and an unidentified animals suspending from their left wrists, and a pair of "Humpback God" figures, enclosing whirling log motif composed of cornstalks supporting male and female "Yei" figures, "Rainbow Guardian" forming the border on three sides
59 x 54in. (149.8 x 137.2cm.)
Finely woven in green, black, yellow, cream, maroon, blue and brown against a light grey ground, probably representing the Whirling Logs sand painting from the Nightway Chant, composed of a pair of "Talking God" figures with full feather headdresses and an unidentified animals suspending from their left wrists, and a pair of "Humpback God" figures, enclosing whirling log motif composed of cornstalks supporting male and female "Yei" figures, "Rainbow Guardian" forming the border on three sides
59 x 54in. (149.8 x 137.2cm.)