Diné (Navajo)
Blanket
Diné (Navajo), 1864-1894
Scroll
Diné (Navajo)
Blanket
Diné (Navajo), 1864-1894
Physical Qualities
Handspun wool and commercial yarn, 60 1/16 x 44 in. (152.5 x 111.8 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Irene Gulck and Bequest of Florence Reese Winslow, by exchange with the Denver Art Museum
Object Number
1953.4.20
Tassle remnants on 2 corners. Red selvage on 2 long sides. Red and blue selvage on 2 short sides. Horizontal bars repeated vertically the length of the blanket. Bars at either end composed of alternating bars of red, magenta, beige and pink. Central bars alternate beige and shades of red. Two sets of magenta bars. Broad beige panels contain small dark blue rhomboids (wedge weave?).
Dena S. Katzenberg, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "And Eagles Sweep Across the Sky," September 18-November 13, 1977
Katzenberg, D. S. "And Eagles Sweep Across the Sky": Indian Textiles of the North American West. Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1977, no. 24, p. 57, ill. p. 57
