Collection of Three Navajo Weaving Saddle Blanket Pillows

Navajo Indian weaving / saddle blanket pillow with leather backing. The condition is very good. It is down and feather fill.

This handsome pair of Navajo Indian weaving saddle blanket pillows are in great condition and have brown cotton linen backing. The inserts are down and feather fill.Sold as a pair only.

This fine handwoven Navajo Saddle blanket monumental pillow is in fine condition with the original corner ties. The backing is a taupe cotton linen. The insert is down and feather fill.

This is a vibrant yet simple striped pattern Indian weaving saddle blanket pillows. Sold as a pair. Great condition.

This is quite interesting for a Indian weaving bolster pillow. Stripes in neutral colors and great condition.

This fantastic saddle blanket has the original corner ties and the now large pillow has a dark chocolate brown linen backing. The insert is down and feather fill with a zipper closur...

Vintage 19th century, circa 1890 Navajo Chiefs blanket with a unique design, a variant of a third phase pattern with five diamonds against a cl...

In the mid-nineteenth century, the United States government set out to survey and document its newly acquired lands and territories west of the Mississippi. The goals of these surveys were manifold: to produce topographical maps, to document flora and fauna, and to document natural resources to build the emerging US economy. These surveys, and the images from them, also functioned to build the new sense of American identity with the landscape, condensing vistas into the 'picturesque' tradition of European image making. Thus, the entire span of US territory could be seen as a single, cohesive whole. This lithograph comes from one of six surveys commissioned by the Army's Topographic Bureau in 1853, which sought to find the best route to construct a transcontinental railroad. The result was a thirteen-volume report including maps, lithographs, and technical data entitled 'Explorations and Surveys to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a Railroad from the Mississippi river to the Pacific Ocean.' In particular, the print comes from the northern survey, commanded by Isaac Stevens, which explored the regions between the 47th and 49th parallels. In this image, Stanley documented the encounter with the Gros Ventre people at Milk River. The explorers were invited to the Gros Ventres camp and the two groups exchanged gifts in friendship. The Stevens Party provided "... blankets, shirts, calico, knives, beads, paint, powder, shot, tobacco, hard bread, etc." The image likewise alludes to how, in 1855, Isaac Stevens, concluded a treaty (Stat., L., XI, 657) to provide peace between the United States and the Blackfoot, Flathead and Nez Perce tribes. The Gros Ventres signed the treaty as part of the Blackfoot Confederacy, whose territory near the Three Fork area became a common hunting ground for the Flathead, Nez Perce, Kootenai, and Crow Indians. 5.75 x 8.75 inches, image 6.5 x 9.25 inches, stone 17 x 20 inches, frame Artist 'Stanley Del.' lower left Entitled 'Distribution of Goods to the Gros Ventres' lower center margin Publisher 'Sarony, Major & Knapp. Lith.s 449 Broadway N.Y.' lower right Inscribed 'U.S.P.R.R. EXP. & SURVEYS — 47th & 49th PARALLELS' upper left Inscribed 'GENERAL REPORT — PLATE XXI' upper right Framed to conservation standards using 100 percent rag matting with French accents; glazed with UV5 Plexiglas to inhibit fading; housed in a gold reverse ogee moulding. Print in overall good condition; some localized foxing and discoloration; minor surface abrasions to frame. John Mix...

Beautiful New Mexico Native American landscape by American Taos Art Colony artist Frank Paul Sauerwein (1871-1910). Laguna Pueblo, 1902. Watercolor on paper measures 7 x 10 inches. Depicted are the Laguna Pueblo People of Laguna New Mexico. Children bathe and women wash clothes in an expansive desert landscape. Adobe structures are at left and a steep cliff wall at right frame the scene. Very minor pigment fading and very minor paper toning. No tears, stains or repair. Signed, dated with location identified lower left. Titled upper left en verso. Sheet is not glued down, but rather it is hinged with pH-neutral archival materials. Biography: Born in Cantonville, New Jersey, Frank Sauerwein, during a short lifetime of thirty-nine years, became a specialist of western scene painting including Southwest Indians in their landscape. "Had he not died in 1910, he likely could have become the seventh founding member of the Taos Society of Artists" ('Frank Paul Sauerwein', Grauer, Harrison, Holmes). From the time he was a student at the Pennsylvania Academy, he signed his last name "Sauerwen," although Sauerwein is the correct spelling. He was raised in Philadelphia and had his first art lessons from his European trained father, Charles Sauerwein (1839-1918). Frank studied at the Philadelphia School of Industrial Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Philadelphia Museum School of Art from where he graduated in 1888. In 1891, he moved to Denver because of his tuberculosis, and the dry climate there much improved his health. In the summer of 1893, he accompanied illustrator Charles Craig on a trip to the Ute Reservation of Southwestern Colorado. From that time he roamed the Southwest for painting subjects, although he based himself in California. He grew to love Arizona, staying at El Tovar Hotel at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon and in 1900 on the Navajo Reservation. He became a close friend of Lorenzo Hubbell, well-known trading post operator at Ganado, and spent much time at Keam's Canyon where he made many sketches of the Navajo and Hopi Indians. In 1901, he taught at a private girls's school in Denver, and then moved to Los Angeles later in the year. I n 1902, he returned to Taos, New Mexico, and Arizona, providing illustrations of U.S. Hollister's 1903 book, The Navajo and His Blanket. In late 1902, he moved to Pasadena, California but continued to spend his summers in the Southwest, traveling to the Grand Canyon, Acoma, Laguna, Albuquerque, and Taos. In 1905, he traveled in Europe for about six months, and he exhibited his watercolors from this trip in Los Angeles in 1906. He also exhibited his paintings, European and western, in San Francisco, Kansas City, Missouri, and Tempe, Arizona. In October, 1906, he purchased in Taos an eight-room adobe adjacent to the home of Dr. T.P. Martin, and today parts of the Taos Inn are located in Sauerwein's property. By January, 1907, his battle with tuberculosis was very taxing on him, and, giving into ill health, he retreated briefly to Los Angeles. However, he recovered sufficiently to travel back to Arizona and New Mexico where he returned to painting the Indian pueblos and reservations. In Taos, Dr. T.P. Martin's wife, Janet, cared for him, and she also traveled with him to Arizona. When he died in 1910, he left her his property in Taos. Too ill to continue painting, he moved to Stamford, Connecticut where he died June 13, 1910. Upon his death, Sauerwein had requested his ashes be spread in the Painted Desert of northeastern Arizona. In 1911, Taos painter Bert Phillips...

Beautiful Navajo childs serape (blanket) circa 1890 simple elegant and modern and its design. And very good vintage condition. The negative background is unusual and indicative to ea...

Navajo transitional pillow. Handmade pillow with front made of Navajo 1880's transitional weaving. Backed with canvas. Featuring natural dyed co...

Large lidded chest with brass and copper fittings and leather cover as well as side handles.

20th c., saddle blanket from the American Southwest. Green, grey and brown woven wool, with a double stepped diamond medallion in the center on a brown ground, solid striped and sawtooth borders. Lazy lines, a wool warp and side selvage cord are all hallmarks of American Southwest weavings...

Mounted circa 1940s Navajo Weaving from the Trading Post Era. Seen is a stylized border with four airplane like central images and various male torsos with hats. Woven of native hand...

19th century circa 1890 Navajo blanket textile woven of Germantown Yarns in an Eyedazzler pattern of vibrant colors including red, green, yellow, black and white. Germantown textiles...

Navajo transitional pillow pair. Handmade pillows with front made of Navajo 1880's transitional weaving. Backed with canvas. Featuring natural d...

Red mesa saddle blanket/floor weaving. Measures: 3'4" x 5'9". Geometric shapes with bright colors of orange, red, blacks, tans and browns. Great condition for age. Shows little if any use. Origin: Navajo, Southwest Period: circa 1920 Dimensions: 3'4" x 5'9". Navajo, Red Mesa, Native American Weavings...

Navajo Double Saddle Blanket, circa 1900. R.B. 71211 woven on front top half. Weaving measures 47 x 23 ¼ inches.

Finely woven small blanket.

Navajo single saddle with eye dazzler design. Trunk piece, unused condition. Period: circa 1940 Origin: Navajo, Southwest Size: 28" x 29".    

Circa 1925, Navajo double saddle blanket with split design. Wool with aniline dyes, half orange and black with Maltese crosses and the other h...

Navajo transitional blanket, circa 1880-1900. A large blanket with strong color and design, zigzags between strong bars.