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Object Number 995-29-10/73943
Display Title Banded Blanket with Moqui stripes
Descriptions
Object Description Banded blanket with Moqui stripes. Handspun z-spun dark brown, white, gray blue, gray, red, and carrot wool and s-spun cottom warp. The dark brown, white and gray wool are natural colors. The gray-blue was aniline-dyed, and the red and carrot are most likely vegetal dyes. Five broad horizontal bands of alternating dark brown and blueish-gray yarn (called a moki stripe) are separated from each other by a toal of five red bands that consist of three red horizontal units separated from each other by diagonal parallelograms in gray, white and carrot. The very center of the rug has red and black "railroad track". Brown and white alternating warps as border trim on top and bottom. Top and bottom selvages are stitched with red and side selvages are left as woven. Length: 135 cm, Wi[see Object Description text entry for extended description]
Inventory Description Blanket, brown, orange, yellow
Classification
  • Blanket
Department Ethnographic
Date c.1890-1900
Culture
  • Zuni?
  • Navajo
  • Early Rug Period
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / New Mexico
Materials Wool
Dimensions Overall: 135 x 114.8 x 0.4 cm (53 1/8 x 45 3/16 x 3/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 995-29-10/73943
Provenance
Collector Dr. William R. Wright (1995)
Donor Dr. William R. Wright (1995)

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