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Object Number
995-29-10/74004
Display Title
Warp-float belt, diamond-centered motifs in black center band
Descriptions
Object Description
Warp-float belt from the mid-1900's, in red, green, and black. This belt is in what Kate Peck Kent calls the Hopi style, using black weft cords of cotton 4-ply commercial yarn, and the warps in red, black, and green commercial aniline dyed wool yarn, s-plied and re-spun to very tight. Most of belt is warp-faced plain weave, in stripes (from outer moving inward) black, green, red. In the center runs a stripe of warp-floated pattern in red and black, a repeating design of triangle-forms and points with rows of stripes at the ends. There are 112 warp elements, 17 per cm of width. A fringe hangs from the ends of the woven belt, warp elements gathered into groups of four and z-twisted into a 56 cm fringe of 27 elements, each knotted at the bottom. There are some broken th[see Object Description text entry for extended description]
Inventory Description
Sash, navy, red, and green
Classification
- Belt
Department
Ethnographic
Date
1933-1966
Culture
- Zuñi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
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United States
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New Mexico
Materials
Cotton yarn, Wool yarn
Dimensions
Overall: 228 x 6.6 x 0.2 cm (89 3/4 x 2 5/8 x 1/16 in.)
Distance: 0.2 x 6.6 x 228 cm (1/16 x 2 5/8 x 89 3/4 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
995-29-10/74004
Provenance
Collector
Dr. William R. Wright
(1995)
Donor
Dr. William R. Wright
(1995)
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