Description:
Navajo Transitional Manta, fourth quarter 19th century, with wide brown central band, with crosses and stepped triangles in two red bands above and below, (with cotton hanging strip on one edge),38 x 50 in.
Provenance: Private collection, Virginia; Sherwoods Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Richard Zaplin collection, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Estimate $6,000-9,000
In good condition, a fabric band for a pole us sewn onto one edge; what appears to be two very small stitch repairs evident in the central band
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Richard ZaplinAmerican Indian & Tribal Art
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