Pictographic Painted Panel with Navajo & Plains Indian Imagery, circa 1939 25953 So critical were they to

So critical were they to a nomadic existence that over 40 tribes are known to have historically produced parfleches

custom tabletop display stand is included

Composition depicting a group of indigenous riders on horseback making their way down a hill

The black and white composition depicts a man and a woman in Grecian costume

The semi abstract composition depicts four faces covered by masks

Pictographic Painted Panel with Navajo & Plains Indian Imagery, circa 1939 25953 So critical were they toPainted pictographic panel with three stories and two letters. Upper and lower panels contain keys for the pictographs. This painting is in three segments, the center pieces of a large multi panel artwork depicting multiple Native American pictographic stories. The panels incorporated Din (Navajo) and Plains imagery. Presented in original copper wrap frame. Provenance: Hilton Hotel, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1939 Private Western Art Collection, 1980s