Diné (Navajo)
Child’s serape
Diné (Navajo), 1864
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Diné (Navajo)
Child’s serape
Diné (Navajo), 1864
Physical Qualities
Wool; red, dark blue, and green dyes, 49 3/16 × 32 1/2 in. (125 × 82.5 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. and Mrs. Robert H. Swindell, Jr., Baltimore
Object Number
1995.111
Red with 4 corner tassles, central zig-zag line tipped in crosses, bands of parallelograms, diamonds with points tipped in crosses. Red ground with four corner tassles or tassle remnants. Central blue zig-zag line with points tipped in crosses. This is flanked by two sets of parallel bands of parallelograms in blue, beige and green. Both endmost panels contain one row of blue and green diamonds with points tipped in crosses.
