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Perhaps the best of three Navajo native American blankets hung as a textile triptych on the outside of Donald Ellis’s stand. This blanket came from the family of John Chantland, owner of a dry goods store in Maryland, who traded blankets for goods in the 1870s. Navajo Navajo, first phase chief’s blanket, Arizona or New Mexico, ca. 1840. Donald Ellis Gallery, New York at Frieze Masters, London
This remarkable coat was the centrepiece of Donald Ellis stand in reconition of its beauty, rarity and remarkable provenance. This was collected by General Sir John Lefroy (1817-1890) during his time in Canada where he performed the first magnetic and meteorological survey of the Canadian northwest. Hunting coat, Montagnais-Naskapi tribe, Labrador, Quebec, 19th century. Caribou hide, pigment, wool broadcloth and wool tassles. . Donald Ellis Gallery, New York at Frieze Masters, London
