Blanket Dress
38499
From: Arizona | New Mexico
Curatorial Section: American
Object Number | 38499 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Navajo |
Provenience | Arizona | New Mexico |
Culture Area | Southwest Culture Area |
Date Made | ca. 1860 |
Section | American |
Materials | Homespun Wool | Natural Dye |
Description | Blanket dress made from two pieces loosely woven together with brown thread. Black central area with thick bands of red at the top and bottom ends. The red sections have thin bands of black and blue and a zigzag, stepped line in black. Blue weft selvedges and blue warp selvedges with some yellow visible underneath. Each corner of the two pieces has a tassel in blue and black, giving the dress eight tassels. Torn from edge near one corner and a repaired tear slightly in from that same corner. Two large soiled areas. |
Length | 166 cm |
Width | 124 cm |
Credit Line | Wanamaker Expedition to the Southwest, R. Stewart Culin, 1901 |
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