Diné (Navajo)
Rug
Diné (Navajo), 1909
Scroll
Diné (Navajo)
Rug
Diné (Navajo), 1909
Physical Qualities
Wool, aniline dyes, 92 15/16 × 53 1/16 in. (236 × 134.7 cm.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Florence Reese Winslow, 1953
Object Number
1986.69.3
Four corner tassles, brown selvage on all four sides; ground is 2 shades of brown; 1 end has dark brown band. Central panel framed in nested serrated zigzag lines in white, black, red. Central panel contains 49 stepped diamonds composed of hourglass and lozenge shapes in various combinations of white, brown, red. At end with brown band, 3 diamonds have pendant lozenge shapes framed in hourglasses. Additional motifs include four white hourglasses and 16 groups of 3 red hourglasses, and 2 red hourglasses.
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, 1977:67