Diné (Navajo)
Saddle blanket
Diné (Navajo), 1919-1929
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Diné (Navajo)
Saddle blanket
Diné (Navajo), 1919-1929
Physical Qualities
Handspun wool, dyes, 59 5/16 × 39 3/16 in. (150.7 × 99.5 cm.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Florence Reese Winslow
Object Number
1953.220.A.16
Four corner tassles, beige ground with central band of brown, and 2 outer bands of tan. Brown band has central, nested diamond in light brown and tan flanked by chevrons in beige and light brown. Thin brown bands separate beige bands from tan and brown bands. Tan bands each have a bar of rhomboids in black, beige, tan, and gray. Brown band edged in red at each end.
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, 1977:72
