blanket;
rug
- Museum number
- Am1974,07.1
- Description
-
Fine, tightly woven wool blanket or rug in red, blue, green, pink and cream colours. The main design is of two long panels arranged in zig-zag bands of colour, with one panel of broader bands than the other; the whole being bordered in a triangular band and solid strips of colour.
- Production date
- 1860 (?)
- Dimensions
-
Length: 210 centimetres
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Width: 136 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register 1974:
Wool. Fine tightly woven blanket in red, blue, green, pink and cream colours. The main design is of two long panels arranged in zig zag bands of colour, with one panel of broader bands than the other, the whole bordered in a triangular band and solid strips of colour.
North America, South West Region, Navajo. Possibly of pre-1860 date and probably woven from Germantown (?) yarn. RUG [NOT BLANKET] [sic].
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
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'
2011-2017 2 Mar-15 Dec, BM Room 26; Gallery of North America, Case: "The Southwest"
- Acquisition date
- 1974
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1974,07.1
