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THB20th C. Pueblo Wood & Leather Tablita Headdress
Lot 287
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Artemis Gallery
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Louisville, CO 80027
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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, Santo Domingo Pueblo, New Mexico, ca. mid 20th century CE. A beautiful example of a tablita, a woman's dance headdress traditionally used by the Pueblo people. It features a large, flat, wooden superstructure, with the lower edge curved to accommodate the head; this example has a leather strap to hold it in place, decorated with an attached short section of cottonwood branch painted bright colors. The superstructure is made of two pieces of wood sewn together at their center with a vertical line of leather thongs. The top of the superstructure features two red arrows - representing lightning - at its outer edges and turquoise/black motifs meant to evoke clouds at the center. Corn stalks, the sun, and hourglass-shaped forms that represent solar energy decorate the rest of the face in a beautiful symmetrical motif. Size: 14.75" W x 21.05" H (37.5 cm x 53.5 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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#149320Upper arrow has an old repair. Nice condition with some wear to the pigment and surface commensurate with age. Motifs are very clear.Condition
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