blanket
- Museum number
- Am1974,03.1
- Description
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Register 1974:
Wool blanket with a pink ground and white, brown and blue patterning. Bordered with a brown top and bottom. Soft colours in pastel hues from natural (vegetable) dyes.
- Dimensions
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Height: 123 centimetres
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Width: 123 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register 1974:
Wool. Blanket. Pink ground with white, brown and blue patterning, bordered with brown top and bottom. Soft colours in pastel hues. Vegetable dyed.
North America, South West Region. Navaho Indian. "Chief's blanket" type.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1985 May-Jun, Museum of Mankind; Festival of Native American Artists-The Living Tradition
1993-1994, London, Museum of Mankind (Room 3), Navajo Textiles
1996-97, London, Museum of Mankind (Room 3), 'Rain: Native American Peoples of the Desert Southwest'
1999 25 Jun-2001 1 Sep, BM Room 26; Gallery of North America, Case: "The Southwest"
- Acquisition date
- 1974
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1974,03.1