John Molloy, President, Antique Tribal Art Dealers Association

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The lecture will allow exploration of two areas of Native American art – Navajo textiles and plains and plateau parfleche (painted rawhide containers). Both of these traditions will be discuss independently and how they pre-figure modern art and American abstraction.

Photographs by Stan Schneir

Crow parfleche horse fenders, circa 1880

Nez Perce parfleche envelope, early 20th Century

Crow parfleche envelope, circa 1890