Diné (Navajo)
Rug
Diné (Navajo), 1929-1939
Scroll
Diné (Navajo)
Rug
Diné (Navajo), 1929-1939
Physical Qualities
Wool, red, black, brown dyes, 94 × 62 5/16 in. (238.7 × 158.2 cm.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Florence Reese Winslow, 1953
Object Number
1986.69.16
Four corner tassles; gray central ground; brown border containing nested, stepped triangles in black and white, and brown and white; short borders have nested triangles in black and white, and brown and white. Three brown, white and black diagonal serrated lines go from corners to central motif. Central swastika-like design contains brown central diamond with smaller swastika-like design in center; central motif also includes triangles and rectangles in red, black and cream. Serrated V-shapes in red, black, white flank 2 ends of central design. Two large geometric designs flank sides of central design and contain hourglass, chevron, X, triangle motifs in red, black, brown, white. These large motifs are, in turn, flanked by stacked triangles in vertical lines and irregular black I-shapes.
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, 1977:71
