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Banded saddle blanket or rug with diagonal twill
Banded saddle blanket or rug with diagonal twill
Object Number 995-29-10/73922
Display Title Banded saddle blanket or rug with diagonal twill
Descriptions
Object Description Banded saddle blanket or rug, diagonal twill. Series of stripes of orange, red orange and blue-black alternating with wider bands of gray. Center band a stripe of alternating short diagonal lines of blue-black and orange with bands of red-orange above and below, and gray bands; then two bands of red-orange, orange, and two blue-black center lines separated by gray bands; at top and bottom two bands of orange, red-orange, and a single blue-black line separated by a narrow gray stripe. Warp: white natural handspun wool; wefts: white natural handspun wool; blue natural handspun wool, indigo dyed; gray natural handspun black and white wool carded together; red, orange natural handspun wool aniline dyed. Selvages: 2-ply gray cords added in at sides, 3-ply orange cords added in[see Object Description text entry for extended description]
Inventory Description Rug, grey, red, and orange stripes
Classification
  • Blanket
Department Ethnographic
Date c.1880-1890
Culture
  • Transition Period
  • Navajo
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Arizona
North America / United States / New Mexico
Materials Wool
Dimensions Overall: 122.5 x 77.5 x 0.4 cm (48 1/4 x 30 1/2 x 3/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 995-29-10/73922
Provenance
Collector Dr. William R. Wright (1995)
Donor Dr. William R. Wright (1995)

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