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Diné (Navajo)

Woman’s Dress, Single Piece (Biil)

Diné (Navajo), 1879-1899

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Diné (Navajo)

Woman’s Dress, Single Piece (Biil)

Diné (Navajo), 1879-1899

Physical Qualities Wool yarn, dyes, 48 1/4 × 28 3/4 in. (122.6 × 73 cm.)
Credit Line Bequest of Saidie A. May
Object Number 1987.128
Black central panel, 2 red panels top and bottom, blue-gray selvage thread and tassle remnants; top and bottom panels have band of stepped rectangles top and bottom. Central band of 4 spider woman crosses all in blue-gray; narrow band of blue-gray on inner edge.
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, 1977:52

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