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Diné (Navajo)

Rug

Diné (Navajo), 1929

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Diné (Navajo)

Rug

Diné (Navajo), 1929

Physical Qualities Wool, dye, 65 9/16 × 52 1/2 in. (166.5 × 133.4 cm.)
Credit Line Bequest of Florence Reese Winslow, 1953
Object Number 1986.69.15
Four corner tassles, brown selvage on all 4 sides, nested black, white, black border with interlocked terraces. Gray ground with central black diamond containing white latch hooks and nested white brown rectangle with white 'X', connected by black line to flanking black rectangle containing white latch hooks and topped by black, terraced, crenelated form. Between black forms connecting black line bisects red crenelated opposed arrows and terminates in triangle with white center. At juncture between connecting line and central diamond are black zigzags terminating in 3 arrows. Central diamond flanked by nested octagon in white, black, brown with red and white triangles in center. Micellaneous other designs are red 'X's, brown rectangles outlined in red, various combinations of diamonds, triangles, lines and arrows in white, red, and brown.
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, 1977:68-69

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