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THBMid 20th C. Chilkat Hide Potlatch Dance Apron w/ Hooves
Lot 47
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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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Featuring historical examples from the American, Spanish, and Mexican frontiers, as well as Native American, Ethnographic, Tribal, Oceanic, Spanish Colonial, more. All items offered for sale have been legally acquired, are legal to sell and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back. Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
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Native American, Pacific Northwest, southeastern Alaska, Chilkat tribe (part of the Tlingit people), ca. 1950s CE. A gorgeous apron, made from painted hide, with long, hanging strips of leather tied to approximately fifty added conical embellishments made from the walls of horses' hooves, creating a pretty tinkling noise as the fringe moves. The creamy beige surface of the hide is painted with crimson and black stylized motifs organized into four horizontal registers; the top shows a huge face at the center with slender eyes, annular nostrils, and a large open mouth of gritting teeth flanked by hands on either side; the second displays a smaller zoomorphic visage surrounded by two wing-like designs; the third is a pattern of four ovoid shapes, and the last exhibits two squares eyes amongst a geometric design. These lovely decorations are likely representations of mythological beings and animals native to the Pacific Northwest. Size without ties: 38" L x 32" H (96.5 cm x 81.3 cm) Size with ties: 83" L (210.8 cm)
From a description of a similar object at the Smithsonian, a Tlingit adviser says, "People usually first look at that face [in the middle] and say 'oh it’s a human' well, most of the form line of the Chilkat pieces have this human looking face in it and it is representational of the spirit of whatever the creature is. So, in a lot of the Native stories, like the story about the bear or something, where the bear takes their skin off and there’s a person inside — the spirit person inside. This [face] represents that spirit, where they take their skin off and it's the person inside." This form of painting is seen by the modern Tlingit as a kind of written language, telling a visual story about their beliefs.
Provenance: private Newport Beach, California, USA collection
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#141331Collection label on verso. Some barely noticeable losses to edges of hoof embellishments. Light staining of fabric. Otherwise, excellent and intact with impressive remaining pigments.Condition
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