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.
Dena S. Katzenberg, Baltimore Museum of Art, "And Eagles Sweep Across the Sky," September 18-November 13, 1977.
Anita Jones, Baltimore Museum of Art, "Woven Rainbows: American Indian Trade Blankets," November 9, 2005-June 11, 2006
Anita Jones, Baltimore Museum of Art, "Woven Rainbows: American Indian Trade Blankets," November 9, 2005-June 11, 2006
Katzenberg, D. S. "And eagles sweep across the sky": Indian textiles of the North American West. Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1977:52