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MB Abram Galleries, Los Angeles, California, was asking
$3800 for this early 20th-century Nez Perce cornhusk bag
from the Columbia River plateau. The bag, which has a
different design on each side, measures 23" long. Abram
said he’d “had some good sales, met interesting people, and
had good dealer-to-dealer business.”
Monterey Garage, Pasadena, California, sold this early
1900s Navajo rug on opening night. The price? $1500. The
buyer? Monterey Garage’s proprietor Dorrie Hall’s sister,
Diane Keaton. Hall told
M.A.D.
that traffic was “very good,
very steady” and that she’d had a good show.
This 1942 Stars and Stripes quilt, 7' x 7', was priced at
$2000 by Faircloth/Holbrook, Santa Fe. Skip Holbrook
believes the quilt was made by a wife waiting for her
husband to come home from World War II, and he said
it has “fabulous stitching.” He added, on the morning of
the last day of the show, “There’s been lots of interest, but
people are holding off on pulling the trigger.”
This early 20th-century Pueblo bow guard cost $1450 at the
booth of Looking West Art Gallery, Old Hickory, Tennessee.
What sold? “A BIG bolo tie and belt.”
In the corner of the venue there was an exhibition of not-for-sale rugs,
Woven in Beauty
, put together by
Mark Winter, who is the Toadlena Trading Post proprietor, a museum curator, historian, collector, and dealer.
Examples of Two Grey Hills/Toadlena weavings celebrate the regional style.
Taylor Dale of TAD Tribal Art, Santa Fe, was asking $1200 for this horse trapping (a decoration
worn around the neck of a horse) from an English collection, made by the Hausa people of
Nigeria.
J. Compton Gallery, Wimberly, Texas, specialist in charming folk art, was featuring this
antique 1880-90 painted, handcrafted Noah’s ark with 60 figures, most of them original to
the set. The ark was collected in Pennsylvania and cost $2000. Jean Compton said she’d had a
“really strong show from start to finish.”
This indigo-dyed, mud-dyed embroidered cotton tunic with egg white
fabric was made and offered by Chinalai Tribal Antiques, Shoreham, New
York, for $400.