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Object Number 995-29-10/73837
Display Title Banded saddle blanket or rug
Descriptions
Object Description Banded saddle blanket or rug. Six bands of three red stripes separating two stripes of alternating connected black and gray lozenges; these bands alternate with five bands with a central white band outlined in black with brown bands above and below it. Warp: white natural handspun wool; wefts: white natural handspun wool, black natural handspun wool, augmented, gray natural handspun black and white wool carded together, red and brown natural handspun wool, aniline dyed. Selvages: weft wrapped around at sides, 3-ply brown cords added in at top and bottom. Warp direction 160 x weft direction 84 x depth .4 cm, plus 9-13 cm tassels each corner. Small paper tag, written in ink: "C' R11" on both sides written in pencil: "double saddle blanket 33 x 62" on one side
Inventory Description Rug, red, grey, brown, white stripes
Classification
  • Rug
Department Ethnographic
Date c.1975-1990
Culture
  • Modern
  • Navajo
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / New Mexico?
North America / United States / Arizona?
Materials Wool
Dimensions Overall: 160 x 84 x 0.8 cm (63 x 33 1/16 x 5/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 995-29-10/73837
Provenance
Collector Dr. William R. Wright (1995)
Donor Dr. William R. Wright (1995)

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