Diné (Navajo)
Rug
Diné (Navajo), 1929
Scroll
Diné (Navajo)
Rug
Diné (Navajo), 1929
Physical Qualities
Handspun wool, dyes (?), 69 5/16 × 46 1/4 in. (176 × 117.4 cm.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Florence Reese Winslow
Object Number
1953.220.A.36
Four brown corner tassles; brown selvage on four sides; black and white nested border, brown ground with overlapping stepped, nested crosses in white, blck, and gray with brown rectangle in center of each cross and 2 ends of cross are pointed. Each internal black cross has an arrow at 6 of the corners. Black crosses attached to central black rectangle with 2 white 'X's. Large central motif has a cross on 16 corners. Pointed ends have 4 latch hooks each; fletched arrows between latch hooks. In each corner are 4 sets of gray crossed 'I's and opposed 'E's outlined in white. Two black and white stepped nested crosses with white squares on 4 corners flank central motif.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1953; Florence Reese Winslow, Baraboo, WI.
Dena S. Katzenberg, Baltimore Museum of Art, "And Eagles Sweep Across the Sky," September 18-November 13, 1977.
Katzenberg, D. S. "And eagles sweep across the sky": Indian textiles of the North American West. Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1977:66