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PUBLISHED Navajo Yeibichai pictorial weaving 34x55, c.1940 [W9612]
American Indian Antique Art and Southwest Native Originals
PUBLISHED weaving: it appears in Navajo Weavings With Ceremonial Themes, by Rebecca and Jean-Paul Valette: 2017, p.268, figure 6.5.18. This delightful, 80+ year old, Navajo-woven pictorial weaving represents the Yeibichai Ceremony of the 9-day Nightway Healing Ceremony that in traditional Dine culture is performed to heal a sick person. The weaving depicts "Talking God" leading 8 male Yei impersonators, overlain on a plain field composed of rare, camel-brown color natural sheep wool. The camel-brown color is not common, making this a distinctive feature of this weaving.
Dimensions: approximating 34” high and 55" wide.
PRICE: $2150 USD.
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Written Authenticity Guarantee: Navajo pictorial Yeibichai weaving c. 1940, and approximating 34 x 55”. Warps: 7 per inch; natural white Navajo sheep wool. Wefts: 26-30 per inch, but mostly 28 per inch. 9 weft colors consisting of 4 natural wool and 5 synthetic-dyed colors.
$2,150.00
Artwork details
Origin
Navajo Nation, USA Southwest
Dimension
Provenance
1996 estate sale, Wilson, NC. In our collection since.
Condition
Professionally cleaned. NO fade. NO dye bleed. NO moth damage. NO toxic moth treatments. NO odors of tobacco, chemicals, fragrance. NO mold. We admire, love and collect antique Navajo weaving for their awesome beauty and for their unique artistic vision and creativity--they move us spiritually, aesthetically and emotionally. And we are awed in knowing their creation requires hundreds or even thousands of hours of dedicated hand labor using knowledge and skills inherited from Dine ancestors. Materials: hand-spun, hand-woven Navajo sheep wool. Warps: 7 per inch; natural white. Wefts: 26-30 per inch, but mostly 28. A total of 9 weft colors: (a) 4 natural, un-dyed wools--white, chocolate brown, natural camel brown and black [possibly over-dyed with synthetic-dyed black]; and (b) 5 synthetic-dyed colors--orange, purple, red, light green, black. Selvedge: natural beige; synthetic red-dyed. Tassels: natural camel-brown; synthetic-dyed red and black.