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Photo by Schenck and Schenck; Southwest Museum

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Details
Object Name

blanket

Culture

Diné (Navajo)

Date

1875 - 1885

Materials

Plain, weft-faced tapestry weave with lazy lines, woven of aniline-dyed machine-spun cotton string warp and weft of native handspun wool.

Dimensions

138.4 cm x 176.5 cm

Credit Line

Gift of Sylvia Rindge Adamson Neville for The Adamson Companies.

Object ID

2087.G.40

Institution

Southwest Museum of the American Indian Collection, Autry Museum of the American West

Category

Art and Artifacts


Remarks

Navajo third-phase chief-style blanket (beeldlei or hanolchadi), 1875-1885. This design in included in Juan Lorenzo Hubbell's rug study and resembles a 1905 oil painting by artist E.A. Burbank.

Subject

aniline dye

lazy lines

tapestry weave

Pictured

diamond designs

serrated diamonds

stripes

Publication

Southwest textiles weavings of the Navajo and Pueblo / Kathleen Whitaker ; with textile analysis assistance by Susie Hart. page 76

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