201128-17 Navajo Rug; Early single saddle blanket; Germantown and Handspun wool weft
c. 1900-1925
27" x 34"
With Rio Grande Influences including striking coloration and Vallejo Star motif in corners. White hand spun wool field, with Four Ply commercial Germantown wool wefts in the colors. Cotton warp which was typical of early Germantown weaving's. We have recently cleaned this blanket and it does have some moth holes which we will fix if this does not sell in 60 days. We are selling as is at this time "as is"
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About the collectors in the family. I think my grandparents George & Anna Siemantel acquired the majority of the pieces. She loved the pottery. He rugs & jewelry. He had an auto dealership during the war and did a lot of trading in NM. He also was foreman for the railroad roundhouse in Las Vegas NM. (He was from Topeka KS and she from Ft.Madison IA) In addition, the two of them and my great uncle, Phillip Schlapp owned a ranch in NE NM. It is now the Elliot Barker Girl Scout Ranch at Angel Fire NM. Phillip & Anna were 2 of 7 siblings. One of the other sisters taught in Watrous NM. And she & her siblings traveled in the summer. I think a lot of the baskets were their acquisitions. (I have pictures of the teachers in a buckboard wagon going to or from Raton.)