Bidspirit auction | Framed Southwestern Style Woven Textile

Framed Southwestern Style Woven Textile with Thunderbird Motif - A framed hand-woven wool textile in the style of a Mexican or Southwestern trade weaving, featuring a central stylized Thunderbird motif. The avian figure is woven in turquoise, red, and black yarns, positioned between two sets of wide horizontal bands composed of thin multicolored stripes. The textile is set against a natural cream-colored ground and retains its fringe at the top and bottom edges. The item is mounted under glass in a dark-stained wood frame. The reverse of the frame contains a cardboard backing with handwritten inscriptions in black ink: Bought in Hammondsport NY Oct. 2013, . Antique Mall., and Looy Bought in 1950s ?. The Thunderbird is an iconographically significant symbol in Indigenous cultures of North America, typically representing power and the forces of nature, and was a popular motif for mid-20th-century souvenir textiles.