Diné (Navajo)
Rug
Diné (Navajo), 1929
Scroll
Diné (Navajo)
Rug
Diné (Navajo), 1929
Physical Qualities
Wool, aniline dyes, 83 9/16 × 42 1/2 in. (212.2 × 108 cm.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Florence Reese Winslow, 1953
Object Number
1986.69.10
Rug with 4 corner tassles, black border, brown whip stitch top and bottom, natural gray-brown ground. Central design surrounded by red crenelated border. Interlacing black and red stepped lines with white interstices form 3 pendant diamonds. Central diamond has red cross, flanking diamonds have black square with white and gray triangles. White stepped line flanks pendant diamonds. Six checkerboards incorporated into white stepped line. Black and white 'V' on either end of both stepped white lines. Spirit line in 1 corner.
Katzenberg, D. S., & Baltimore Museum of Art. "And eagles sweep across the sky": Indian textiles of the North American West : [exhibition]. Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1977:67
Katzenberg, D. S., & Baltimore Museum of Art. "And eagles sweep across the sky": Indian textiles of the North American West : [exhibition]. Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1977:67
