Diné (Navajo)
Rug
Diné (Navajo), 1919
Scroll
Diné (Navajo)
Rug
Diné (Navajo), 1919
Physical Qualities
Wool, dye, 42 7/16 × 27 15/16 in. (107.8 × 71 cm.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Florence Reese Winslow, 1953
Object Number
1986.69.6
Gray ground with white, and black border, 4 corner tassles. Each corner has black hourglass with white interior and white stepped rectangle with brown interior. Brown rectangle with black interior on middle of 2 sides. Central design outlined in intertwined black and white stepped lines with brown fill. Central design is two white spider woman crosses with black cross in center; 2 corners have gray spirit lines.
Anita Jones, "Woven Rainbows: American Indian Trade Blankets," BMA, Nov. 9, 2005-June 11, 2006
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, 1977:66
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, 1977:66
