Ethnographic Art Auction
Oct 3, 2021
110 Main Street, Gallatin (Nashville), TN, United States
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Ethnographic Art & Artifacts: Includes Native American, Pre-Columbian, African, and Asian Art from several prominent collections including important items from:<br>
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- Estates of Dr. Ora & Eleanor Eads of Nashville, Tennessee.*; <br>
- Jim "Hobo" Varsos (Alaska's Hobo Jim) of Soldotna, Alaska and Nashville, Tennessee*; <br>
- Dr. Stefan Petrescu, award winning concert violinist, Nashville, Tennessee and Sarasota, Florida;<br>
- Estate of Robert Wells, Arlington, Texas; <br>
- Don Poythress, Singer / Songwriter, Nashville, Tennessee.<br>
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* Estate of Dr. Ora & Eleanor Eads, of Nashville, Tennessee. The Eads' Ethnographic Art & Artifacts collection is estimated to have included over one thousand rare and important items. In addition to the Eads Museum, portions of the collection are held in several museums and prominent public and private collections. Each artifact was carefully selected by the Eads for its significance and scarcity, acquired from the most reputable museums, private collections and dealers. The Eads' original documents relating to their lifetimes of collecting are held in the permanent archives at Tennessee Tech University.<br>
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* Jim "Hobo" Varsos (Alaska's Hobo Jim) of Soldotna, Alaska and Nashville, Tennessee. World famous American folk singer-songwriter, and one of the most popular guitar players in Alaska. In 1994, Hobo Jim was named Alaska's official balladeer. A Life-long collector of rare art and artifacts from around the world, including Native American, Asian and African Art.<br>
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* Dr. Stefan Petrescu has won numerous prizes as a violin soloist in his native Romania and has performed throughout Europe in cities such as Paris, Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Bucharest as well as various cities in the United States including Cincinnati, New Orleans, and Nashville. He was concert master of the Constanta Symphony Orchestra in Romania both at home and during their tours in America and Western Europe. When not performing solos or chamber music, he composes for violin and has recorded a number of CDs which include both his own works and those of Vivaldi, Bruch, Sinding, Piazzolla, Vaughn Williams, and Milhaud. Mr. Petrescu is currently performing as concert master of the Tennessee Philharmonic Orchestra. He holds degrees from the George Enescu academy.
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LOT 100:
Vintage Guna Yala Mola Textile Art (Panama)
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Vintage Guna Yala Mola Textile Art (Panama)
Vintage Original Hand-made Guna / Kuna Mola Textile Art (Guna Yala, Panama) | An original Guna Yala hand stitched 2-layered Mola depicting 4 spread winged birds, 1968 | Framed | Approx. Size: 26.5" W x 24.5 H x 2" D.
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The Mola or Molas is a hand-made textile that forms part of the traditional women's clothing of the indigenous Guna people from Panamá, Central America, and Colombia, South America. The full costume includes a patterned wrapped skirt (saburet), a red and yellow headscarf (musue), arm and leg beads (wini), a gold nose ring (olasu) and earrings in addition to the mola blouse (dulemor). In Dulegaya, the Guna's native language, "mola" means "shirt" or "clothing". The mola originated with the tradition of Guna women painting their bodies with geometric designs, using available natural colors; in later years these same designs were woven in cotton, and later still, sewn using cloth bought from the European settlers of Panamá. Guna Yala, formerly known as San Blas, is a comarca indígena (indigenous province) in northeast Panama (Official Gazette of Panama). Guna Yala is home to the indigenous people known as the Gunas. Its capital is El Porvenir. It is bounded on the north by the Caribbean Sea, on the south by the Darién Province and Emberá-Wounaan, on the east by Colombia, and on the west by the province of Colón.
