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Outline style rug
Object Number 995-29-10/73798
Display Title Outline style rug
Descriptions
Object Description Outline style rug. Overall pattern of two vertical columns of stacked gold diamonds outlined with white with accents of black triangles outlined in white creating a large serrated diamond; within the gold diamonds are concentric hourglass forms of light brown with two gold diamonds outlined in white meeting at short horizontal white outlined gold bar at center; total series of seven stacked diamonds, with center diamond having light brown hour glass figures within gold diamonds. The diamond-shaped spaces between form a central vertical series of light brown serrated diamonds with central gold hourglass figures, and similar half diamonds at sides, total series of six spaces, with half spaces at top and bottom. Black borders, with a pattern of "fletching" outlined in whit[see Object Description text entry for extended description]
Inventory Description Rug, brown and white
Classification
  • Rug
Department Ethnographic
Date c.1940-1949
Culture
  • Early Modern Period
  • Navajo
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / New Mexico
North America / United States / Arizona
Materials Wool
Dimensions Overall: 315.5 x 206 x 0.5 cm (124 3/16 x 81 1/8 x 3/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 995-29-10/73798
Provenance
Collector Dr. William R. Wright (1995)
Donor Dr. William R. Wright (1995)

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