Navajo Transitional Period Checkered Blanket

ca 1885

71×51

Professionally Cleaned 8/14/24

Early Checkered designs were often borrowed from the early American Quilt patterns. With wear and numerous breaks as pictured but overall an handsome blanket that is priced right.

Oscar B Jacobson Estate Collection

Jacobson Provenance

My grandparents were Oscar Brousse Jacobson and Sophie Jacobson.

As founder and first Director of the School of Art at the University of Oklahoma, Oscar Jacobson devoted significant time and energy in support of Native American arts and artists. He taught, nurtured and developed the group of young Native American artists known as the Kiowa Six, among many others. In honor of those effortsnationwide and internationally, the Kiowas honored Jacobson by making him honorary chief of the Kiowa Tribe on July 26th 1928. The tribe presented him with Regalia made for him for that ceremony.Before he died, my grandfather gifted that Regalia to me.

In addition to that regalia, both of the Jacobsons collected a variety of Native American items. Some of these items were given to me directly by each of them, some I inherited upon the death of each of them, and the remainder I from my mother, Yolande Jacobson Sheppard upon her death. All of the items have been in possession of the Jacobson and Sheppard families continuously.Sim C. Sheppard January 2024