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Warp-float belt: bracketed stepped triangular forms in red and white
Warp-float belt: bracketed stepped triangular forms in red and white
Object Number 995-29-10/74008
Display Title Warp-float belt: bracketed stepped triangular forms in red and white
Descriptions
Object Description Warp-float belt from the 1930's-1950's in red, green, and white. This belt is in what Kate Peck Kent calls the Navajo style, using white weft cords of 4-ply z-spun, s-twist cotton, and warp cords in red and green acrylic and white cotton (same as the weft cord) The acrylic yarn is 3-ply commercial aniline dyed acrylic yarn, tightly spun. Most of belt is warp-faced plain weave, in stripes (from outer moving inward to central design stripe) red, green, red. In the center runs a stripe of warp-floated pattern in red and white, a repeating design of stepped triangle-forms and "V" shapes on a ground of weft-wise stripes. The edges are embellished with two strands of cord twined along the selvage, pink 2-ply on one side and white single-ply on the other. There are approxi[see Object Description text entry for extended description]
Inventory Description Sash, red, warp-float weave
Classification
  • Belt
Department Ethnographic
Date 1930-1959
Culture
  • Navajo
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / New Mexico?
North America / United States / Arizona?
Materials Wool, Cotton
Dimensions Overall: 290 x 11 x 0.2 cm (114 3/16 x 4 5/16 x 1/16 in.) Distance: 0.2 x 11 x 280 cm (1/16 x 4 5/16 x 110 1/4 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 995-29-10/74008
Provenance
Collector Dr. William R. Wright (1995)
Donor Dr. William R. Wright (1995)

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