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Diné (Navajo)

Rug

Diné (Navajo), 1900-1999

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Diné (Navajo)

Rug

Diné (Navajo), 1900-1999

Physical Qualities Yarn, 94 × 58 1/16 in. (238.8 × 147.4 cm.)
Credit Line The Baltimore Museum of Art
Object Number NA 120
3 tassles (1 missing); 3 nested borders: black, white with black latch hooks, black with nested gray and white serrated diamonds. Brown ground with central gray spider woman cross surrounded by black and white interlocked zigzag line. Cross contains crescent, star, 4 feathers, bow, arrow and 2 geometric figures. Cross flanked by gray geometric forms bordered in black and containing plant, animal and geometric forms. 4 double latch hooks and nested serrated diamonds with pendant triangles in each corner of ground. 4 double latch hooks and 4 black and gray panels of diamonds connected by black line to pendant nested circles in black, white, brown flank 4 sides of spiderwoman cross. Small black and white diamonds scattered throughout. Central ground framed by interlocked black and white zigzag lines with gray fill.

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