AUTUMN ESTATES AND COLLECTIONS, NOV. 16, 2024
Lot 6019:
Vintage Navajo Yei rug with six multicolored dancers and figures on a variegated gray background.
"Yei"(pronounced "yay") is the Navajo name for the benevolent supernatural beings who bring their healing power to medicinal sandpainting ceremonies still performed today. In fact, Yeis were first portrayed in rugs through traditional sandpainting designs created for these ceremonies, but the modern Yei rug is more of a pictorial composition, showing a row of the front-facing stylized stick figures. Between the Yeis, cornstalks, feathers and arrows may appear, and a Rainbow Guardian often surrounds and protects the figures on three sides, indicating the sandpainting roots of this particular style.
Size: 60" x 30 1/2".
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