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Sash

Date1900-1925
DimensionsOverall: 6 × 52 in. (15.2 × 132.1 cm)
Object numberT0429
Credit LineGift of Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw
Photograph by Richard Walker
Label TextWedding sashes were also known as rain sashes because the long fringes represent falling rain. Like the union of a man and woman, the rain symbolizes fertility and renewal in deserts of the southwest.
Exhibition History

ProvenanceGerald Peters, Santa Fe, New Mexico
BibliographyVincent, Gilbert et al. Art of the North American Indians: The Thaw Collection. Cooperstown, New York: Fenimore Art Museum, 2000, p.230.

Fognell, Eva and Alexander Brier Marr, eds. Art of the North American Indians: The Thaw Collection at the Fenimore Art Museum, 2nd ed. Cooperstown, New York: Fenimore Art Museum, 2016, p. 240.
On View
On view
Dolls
Haudenosaunee (Iroquois)
c. 1870-1880
Dolls
Haudenosaunee (Iroquois)
c. 1870-1880
Sash
Hopi
c. 1890
Sash
Hopi
c. 1900-1920
Manta
Hopi
1915-1935
Manta
Hopi
1900-1925
Belt
Hopi
1900-1930
Dance Kilt
Hopi
c. 1940
Teepee liner
Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)
c. 1940
Piptuka Wutaka
Hopi
1910-1920
Leggings
Hopi
c. 1900
Sash
Choctaw
c. 1830

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COOPERSTOWN NY, 13326
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