Diné (Navajo)
Rug
Diné (Navajo), 1929
Scroll
Diné (Navajo)
Rug
Diné (Navajo), 1929
Physical Qualities
Wool, aniline dyes, 94 5/16 × 66 5/8 in. (239.5 × 169.2 cm.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Florence Reese Winslow, 1953
Object Number
1986.69.13
Four corner tassles; nested border in black, beige, brown; selvage on 4 sides; central design of 5 pendant serrated diamonds. Central diamond in nested colors: black, red, beige. Four other diamonds in nested colors: black, red, beige, brown. Diamonds contain latchhooks, frets, and other geometric forms in black, beige, red, brown. Diamonds placed on bars of black and red. Bars connected with zigzag lines linked to hourglass-shapes and thin black bars. Five diamonds flanked by red stripes with pendant and overlaid diamonds and frets. Four corners contain black swastikas and pendant triangles in beige, brown, black and red. Spirit line in 1 corner. Two (?) spirit lines in opposite edge. Tie-down lines.
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, 1977:69