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Object Number
995-29-10/73828
Display Title
Standard design rug with bird motifs
Descriptions
Object Description
Standard design rug with bird motifs. Gray-brown background with two large truncated white diamonds up center of field, banded by a wide band of brown-black outlined on both sides with red and containing white and tan chevron figures; this band continues the diagonal pattern enclosing a half diamond space at top and at bottom. A tan stripe outlined in red and ending in two small brown-black triangles outlined in white at each end divides the two central diamonds vertically, and smaller brown bands outlined in red branch out from this stripe to divide the two white diamonds horizontally. In the lower two of the three half diamond spaces formed at each side are small dark gray-blue birds with white tail feathers and white feet, the two birds at the middle of the rug having r[see Object Description text entry for extended description]
Inventory Description
Rug, brown stripes
Classification
- Rug
Department
Ethnographic
Date
c.1900-1940?
Culture
- Early Rug Period
- Navajo
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
/
New Mexico
North America / United States / Arizona
North America / United States / Arizona
Materials
Wool
Dimensions
Overall: 206 x 107.5 x 0.4 cm (81 1/8 x 42 5/16 x 3/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
995-29-10/73828
Provenance
Collector
Dr. William R. Wright
(1995)
Donor
Dr. William R. Wright
(1995)
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