Diné (Navajo)
Rug
Diné (Navajo), 1929
Scroll
Diné (Navajo)
Rug
Diné (Navajo), 1929
Physical Qualities
Wool, aniline dyes, 139 3/16 × 84 13/16 in. (353.5 × 215.5 cm.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Florence Reese Winslow, 1953
Object Number
1986.69.5
Four corner tassles, nested black, white, brown border, black and white border interlocked by triangles with one stepped side. Gray ground with cental nested, stepped diamond outlined in black, red and brown, with white central diamond with white triangles at either end. In center of white diamond are opposed arrows in black, red, brown with diamond and hourglass-shapes on shaft. Four brown rhomboids outlined in red flank ends of central diamond. Two sides have 2 small stepped, nested triangles in brown, red, black and white flanked by large stepped, nested triangles in brown, red, black, white and brown. 'Tie-down' tracks.
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, 1977:70