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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.
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, 1977:71

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