blanket
- Museum number
- Am1948,17.21
- Description
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Chief's blanket; woven of wool; blanket with vertical stripes of black, natural colour and blue; handspun.
- Production date
- 1850-1860 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 180 centimetres
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Width: 134 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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First phase chief's blanket. Circa 1850-60. Handspun wool; the white and brown are natural colours; the blue is dyed with indigo.
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See Rayna Green (ed) `The British Museum Encyclopaedia of Native North America' British Museum Press, 1999. see JCH King `First Peoples, First Contacts' British Museum Press 1999
Register 1948:
Navajo, SW USA. Earliest type.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1982 25 Sep-1983 31 Aug, Horniman Museum, London, Navajo Weaving 1850-1982
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-2011 2 Mar, BM Room 26; Gallery of North America, Case: "The Southwest"
- Acquisition date
- 1948
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1948,17.21