Hopi
Arizona
1930s
Cloth, wood
Height 6", length 9 1/2"
Provenance: Larry Frank, Taos, NM
This Hopi figure is made of cloth, a woman shown kneeling at a wooden grinding bin with both hands lowered into the trough to grind corn. She wears a striped mantle with red-and-white banded borders over a black dress, her hair wrapped and coiled at the sides of the head in the Hopi manner, with facial features inked onto white cloth. The scene depicts the daily task of grinding corn on the metate, worked over a shallow wooden box.
Larry Frank (1930 – 2011) was a Taos collector and scholar of Southwestern art, co-author of Indian Silver Jewelry of the Southwest 1868 to 1930 and New Kingdom of the Saints.
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Hopi
Arizona
1930s
Cloth, wood
Height 6", length 9 1/2"
Provenance: Larry Frank, Taos, NM
This Hopi figure is made of cloth, a woman shown kneeling at a wooden grinding bin with both hands lowered into the trough to grind corn. She wears a striped mantle with red-and-white banded borders over a black dress, her hair wrapped and coiled at the sides of the head in the Hopi manner, with facial features inked onto white cloth. The scene depicts the daily task of grinding corn on the metate, worked over a shallow wooden box.
Larry Frank (1930 – 2011) was a Taos collector and scholar of Southwestern art, co-author of Indian Silver Jewelry of the Southwest 1868 to 1930 and New Kingdom of the Saints.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
