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Diné (Navajo)

Pictorial rug (Yeibechai)

Diné (Navajo), 1919

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Diné (Navajo)

Pictorial rug (Yeibechai)

Diné (Navajo), 1919

Physical Qualities Handspun yarn, dyes, 67 × 42 in. (170.2 × 106.7 cm.)
Credit Line Bequest of Florence Reese Winslow, 1953
Object Number NA 111
Four corner tassles; nested black, white, red borders; nested brown and red square in each corner of white border; gray ground with central Yei figure. Figure wears a mask with 2 feathers and evergreen ruff, he holds an evergreen branch in one hand and a rattle in the other. Belted kilt in red, white, and black with animal pelt hanging from back. Blue leggings and red moccasins. Two nested red and brown diamonds flank dancers at waist.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1953; Florence Reese Winslow, Baraboo, WI.

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