Antler Avaynu Fetish by master Teddy Weahkee

Antler Avaynu Fetish by master Teddy Weahkee(1890-1965) ; 9" incl feather; mid 20th century; Collected by Proctor Stafford, a Los Angeles collector of the ancient art of
Mexico since the late 1940s through the '50s. He was the first American
collecting Pre-Columbian art down in Mexico. He collected in conjunction
with the artists Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Wolfgang Paalen and William
Spratling, among other luminaries of the day. He passed away in 1997. The
Proctor Stafford Collection at LACMA is arguably the world's best
collection of ancient West Mexican art. He also collected Northwest
Coast and Southwestern U.S. tribal art, in addition to Southwestern
silver & turquoise jewelry. He may have bought the fetishes from Larry
Frank, but we have no written proof of that, only spoken memories of
people he bought from in Arizona and New Mexico and the Santa Fe scene
of the '60s & '70s. 9