Diné (Navajo)
Eye Dazzler Rug
Diné (Navajo), 1879
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Diné (Navajo)
Eye Dazzler Rug
Diné (Navajo), 1879
Physical Qualities
Handspun wool, aniline (?) dyes, 86 × 60 1/16 in. (218.5 × 152.5 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Dena S. Katzenberg, Baltimore
Object Number
1980.463
Orange selvage on 4 sides; 3 remnant corner tassles. Five pendant nested, serrated diamonds in orange, gold, white, and yellow, with blue, purple and black centers enclosed by vertical serrated nested zigzag stripes, half diamonds and arrowheads positioned down sides. One end with horizontal zigzag stripes, both ends with paired lines, all in repeated colors.
Katzenberg, Dena. And eagles sweep across the sky. Indian textiles of the North American West. Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1977, cat. 34, p. 30, ill.
