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THB19th C. Native American Pueblo Wood Tableta Headdress
Lot 108c
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Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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- Lot Description
Native American, Southwestern United States, New Mexico, Pueblo, ca. late 19th to early 20th century CE. A wonderful example of a painted wood tableta headdress, so-called because they are traditionally formed from a single wooden panel. This headdress is composed of two wooden panels that are joined by leather straps and twisted threads down the center as well as a painted leather headband along the bottom. The blue-painted front surfaces bear an abstract representation of weather - red, white, and yellow 'clouds' with black 'rain' beneath and red bolts of 'lightning' projecting from the outermost peripheries - beneath openwork steps. Two triangular shell ornaments dangle on either side of the leather headwrap and create a colorful presentation that glints as the wearer moves their body. Size: 14.9" W x 17.7" H (37.8 cm x 45 cm)
Pueblo women wear the tablita as part of the corn dance, which is also known as the tablita; the purpose is to supplicate themselves to call rain. They also wear dark dresses with a red belt and heavy strands of turquoise, shell, and silver beads. They hold sprigs of pine and cedar stems in their hands. Musicians at the dance chant invocations to the clouds while the dancers engage in a dramatic, physically arduous ceremony that can last nearly all day.
See a similar example at the Cleveland Museum of Art (1937.921).
Provenance: private Glorieta, New Mexico, USA collection
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#149319Minor abrasions to both sides of panels and peripheries, with light fading to areas of original pigmentation, desiccation to leather components commensurate with age, and minor staining, otherwise intact and excellent. Great traces of original pigment throughout.Condition
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