The Whitehawk Antique Indian & Ethnographic Art Show has been a Santa Fe institution for over 48 years. With the demise of the antique tribal art fairs on the West and East Coasts of the US, this show has strengthened its significance as a major event for tribal art, textile art dealers alongside the stands offering the event's particular strength. Every year Santa Fe is a draw for people interested in ethnographic art, and its special exhibition, The First Moderns, showing a collection of rare Diné/Navajo Germantown weavings from the 1870s to the 1900s, was an added bonus in 2026. Here are a few pictorial highlights grabbed by our HALI roving reporter.
John Ruddy Textile Art, Sante Fe, with two Japanese textiles: a mosen, shiboro-dyed felt carpet and a resist-dyed summer festival jacket, happi.
Precolumbian textiles including Nasca textiles and feather tunic on the stand of William Siegal Gallery, Sante Fea
The stand of Thomas Murray showing a mixture of Japanese, Ainu, Borneo and Indonesian art
Thomas Murray pointing out the merits of his Ainu robe.
Californian dealer Mark Johnson offered tribal textiles and Indonesian sculpture
Fijian tapa, bark cloth, 19th century on the outside of the stand of Joe Loux, CA
Embroidered Pueblo wool manta, circa 1840, Michael D Higgins, Tuscon
Gale Hoskins stand has an impressive display of display of Aymara and Andean textiles and ponchos
Poncho, Potosi, Bolivia shown by Gale Hoskins
Stand of Joshua Baer showing a Third Phase Navajo (Diné) Chief's blanket
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