Wool late terraced style ("broken stripe"); red ground with maroon, white and green stripes; designs are alternating indigo and white blocks used in terrace building, terraced and striped diamonds and half-diamonds in maroon, cerise, green, white; purple and indigo corner tassels; hard-battened; fine condition with brilliant colors; minor soil. Wool warp, 3-ply commercial wool weft; tapestry weave. "Classic Period" weaving.
Donor:
Estate of Phoebe Apperson Hearst, Lewis K. Napton, Robert Fleming Heizer, University Appropriation, and various collectors
Collection place:
Southwestern United States
Verbatim coll. place:
Navajo
Culture or time period:
Navajo
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
1920
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Blankets (coverings)
Function:
4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Production date:
ca. 1865-1875
Accession date:
1920 and 1969
Context of use:
Wearing blanket/wall hanging. According to Joe Ben Wheat (December 1975) not likely woven as a garment (certainly not for wear by an Indian). More likely made to be hung on wall of non-Indian home.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
width 1.94 meters and length 1.58 meters
Comment:
See letter in acc. env." References: Amsden, Navaho Weaving, Pl. 99.