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Pictorial rug with dance figures
Pictorial rug with dance figures
Object Number 995-29-10/73902
Display Title Pictorial rug with dance figures
Descriptions
Object Description Pictorial rug with dance figures. White center field with a row of four red stacked-triangle elements outlined in black across center, and above and below that a row of three female dance figures with frontal round gray heads outlined in black and with two black lines, feathers or horns?, extending up from top of head, black eyes and mouth, gray bodies with upraised arms and gray skirts, with red neck bands and waist bands and brown bands across bottom of skirt; the legs are in profile, toes to left, in brown, with red band at top of boot. Above and below these figures is a row of three larger male dancers, white frontal heads outlined in brown, brown feathers-horns? extending from heads, black eyes and mouth, brown bodies with upraised arms, brown trousers on legs in prof[see Object Description text entry for extended description]
Inventory Description Rug, grey, tan, red, black
Classification
  • Rug
Department Ethnographic
Date c.1920-1929
Culture
  • Navajo
  • Early Rug Period
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Arizona?
North America / United States / New Mexico?
Materials Wool
Dimensions Overall: 173 x 112.5 x 0.4 cm (68 1/8 x 44 5/16 x 3/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 995-29-10/73902
Provenance
Collector Dr. William R. Wright (1995)
Donor Dr. William R. Wright (1995)

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