Diné (Navajo)
Storm Pattern Rug
Diné (Navajo), 1929-1939
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Diné (Navajo)
Storm Pattern Rug
Diné (Navajo), 1929-1939
Physical Qualities
Handspun wool, dyes?, 87 5/16 × 55 1/8 in. (221.8 × 140 cm.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Florence Reese Winslow
Object Number
1953.220.A.20
Four corner tassels; black ground, nested black, brown, gray border. Brown and gray border interlocked by opposed white 'Y's. Storm pattern contains central box connected to 4 corner boxes by diagonal zigzag lines embellished with latchhooks. Central box is white with brown, gray serrated border and central nested lozenge in black, tan, brown. Lozenge has double latchhook top and bottom and zigzag on sides and corners. Corner boxes are white with brown and gray nested, serrated rectangles. Central box flanked on 2 sides by nested white, brown, gray crosses with appended latchhooks. Central box flanked on other 2 sides by human-type figures composed of triangle 'skirt', linear 'torso', and zigzag 'arms'. Triangle 'skirt' rests on motif composed of stripe and rectangles.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1953; Florence Reese Winslow, Baraboo, WI.
Katzenberg, D. S. "And eagles sweep across the sky": Indian textiles of the North American West. Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1977:71
