Diné (Navajo)
Two-piece woman’s dress (biil)
Diné (Navajo), 1849-1879
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Diné (Navajo)
Two-piece woman’s dress (biil)
Diné (Navajo), 1849-1879
Physical Qualities
Handspun wool, dye, 49 × 33 in. (124.5 × 83.8 cm.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Florence Reese Winslow
Object Number
1953.220.A.21
Four corner tassles; gray/black (natural) central panel, red panels top and bottom; selvage thread and seams are gray and blue; top and bottom panels have: band of stepped rectangles top and bottom, crenelation with nested half square on both sides, central band of serrated open double diamonds; narrow band of red, blue, gray bands between each red panel and central gray panel.
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, 1977:52
