Handwoven and Embroidered Textile by Sarah Sanborn (NH, 1732-1792) with Family Note native amercAN super lush and painterly on

super lush and painterly on the larger and looking as if applied with finger tips on the smaller

designed by C

and with the softening/fading to the color of the purple construction paper enhancing a sense of timelessness--really a very lovely and rather transcendent little piece

who was hired by American anthropologist Jesse Walker Fewkles to visually record the hundreds of different kachinas revered by the tribe

Handwoven and Embroidered Textile by Sarah Sanborn (NH, 1732-1792) with Family Note native amercAN super lush and painterly onI love finding very old things with notes about their histories carefully attached to them; we should all have such presence of mind. And the note here, written in 1936 either by grand niece Glaydis S. Little herself or someone who knew her, tells us this finely handwoven textile, embroidered with the name Sarah Sanborn, dates to the 18th century. And a search for Sarah Sanborn immediately turns up a Sarah Sanborn, born in 1732, in Hampton, Rockingham