Diné (Navajo)
Leader’s Blanket Third Phase
Diné (Navajo), 1849-1879
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Diné (Navajo)
Leader’s Blanket Third Phase
Diné (Navajo), 1849-1879
Physical Qualities
Wool, 58 1/8 x 75 1/4 in. (147.6 x 191.1 cm.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Florence Reese Winslow
Object Number
1953.220.A.15
Third phase. Four corner tassles; purple selvage on long edges. One short edge is partially whipped with orange thread which is tied with a gray knot (possible mend?). Horizontal bands of black and red, black and cream. Central design is gray spider woman cross on red ground within nested gray, cream, red, stepped cross. This is flanked top and bottom by full spiderwoman cross in 1/2 stepped nested cross. Central stripe of 3 crosses is flanked at each end by 1/2 central stripe.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1953; Florence Reese Winslow, Baraboo, WI.
Woven Rainbows: American Indian Trade Blankets
Katzenberg, D. S. "And eagles sweep across the sky": Indian textiles of the North American West. Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1977:52
