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Teec Nos Pos Pictorial Rug
Teec Nos Pos Pictorial Rug

Teec Nos Pos Pictorial Rug

Artist Nellie Joe (North American Indian, Diné (Navajo), 1922 - 2015)
Date1983
MediumRespun and vegetal-dyed commercial machine-spun wool yarn and machine-spun synthetic-dyed wool yarn
DimensionsOverall: 76 × 60 inches (193.04 × 152.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Susan and Conrad De Jong
Object number2016.20.2
On View
Not on view
Collections
DescriptionWeaving featuring four chiefs wearing headdresses on a gray background with a complex double border.Exhibition History

A Century of Navajo Weaving: Selections from the Susan Morris De Jong Collection, Macalester Galleries, Macalaster College, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1993.

Provenance

Purchased from the artist  by Mr. and Mrs. Susan and Conrad De Jong, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1983-2016;

Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2016.

Published References
Torrence, Gaylord, ed. Continuum: North American Native Art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Kansas City: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

Martha Taylor, A Century of Navajo Weaving: Selections from the Susan Morris De Jong Collection, exh. cat. (Macalester Galleries, Macalester College, 1993).

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