UNIQUE HISTORIC NAVAJO SADDLE BLANKET/ RUG, SPIDER WOMAN CROSSES & CROSS, C1900, NR




Item History & Price

Information:
Reference Number: Avaluer:49806079Modified Item: No
Provenance: Ownership History Not AvailableCountry/Region of Manufacture: United States
Origin: SW United StatesArtisan: Unknown
Tribal Affiliation: Navajo
Original Description:
UNIQUE HISTORIC NAVAJO SADDLE BLANKET / RUG, SPIDER WOMAN CROSSES & CROSS, C1900, NR!

Beautiful handspun wool Saddle Blanket with asymmetrical Designs including small white squares attached to Spider Woman Crosses, one brown stripe that extends entire length, one corner square that has a red extension, one square that is half white and half brown, and middle squares which change from red to brown - all from one side to the other. Additionally, the entire blanket creates a Sp...ider Woman Cross!
An old and attractive Spider Woman Cross Saddle Blanket that measures approximately 29” x 31”.  Neat single brown band at center reminiscent of 19th C Chief Blankets. Fresh to the marketplace.  I had to relist this weaving as I had misplaced the rug.
In Navajo culture, the Spider Woman Cross speaks of deity, duality, benevolence and creation. 
"Spider Woman instructed the Navajo women how to weave on a loom which Spider Man told them how to make. The crosspoles were made of sky and earth cords, the warp sticks of sun rays, the healds of rock crystal and sheet lightning. The batten was a sun halo, white shell made the comb. There were four spindles: one a stick of zigzag lightning with a whorl of cannel coal; one a stick of flash lightning with a whorl of turquoise; a third had a stick of sheet lightning with a whorl of abalone; a rain streamer formed the stick of the fourth, and its whorl was white shell." (Navajo Legend).
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IN an effort to assist Buyers with understanding the way I describe the condition of Navajo weavings that I’m selling on ebay, I spoke with Navajo textile author and expert Tyrone Campbell about his ‘Classification Categories for Condition’ that he first published in his NEWSLETTER in 1981.  
After discussing with him that we may have to tweak it a bit because its been 40 years since it was originally comprised and has gotten nearly impossible to find weavings in excellent, let alone mint condition these days, I concluded, what the hell, why mess with a good thing.  It’s a standard worth sticking to!  So here it is as originally written (and with permission to reprint from Tyrone, July 2020).
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“CLASSIFICATION CATEGORIES FOR DETERMINING PHYSICAL CONDITION 
FRAGMENT:           Any portion of an entire weaving.
DETERIORATED:  Heavily damaged, warps exposed, selvage missing, large holes, serious fading or running, corners or areas missing.
AVERAGE:               Shows floor wear or small holes, some selvage damage, very minor bleeding, etc.
GOOD:                      Above average classification may still show use, but not broken warps.  In some cases a very small hole or two or a minor selvage break or two is acceptable.
EXCELLENT:           No holes, no bleeding or fading, no exposed warps or serious selvage damage.
MINT:                        This classification means that the textile is in pristine condition.
NOTE:  In the case of rare weavings we will up-grade the condition classification from Average to Good or from Good to Excellent, but in no case to Mint or from Deteriorated to Average condition.” 
From THE TYRONE D. CAMPBELL NEWSLETTER, Published at Albuquerque, N.M., 1981.++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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