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Diné (Navajo)

Woman’s Two Piece Dress (Biil)

Diné (Navajo), 1849-1879

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Diné (Navajo)

Woman’s Two Piece Dress (Biil)

Diné (Navajo), 1849-1879

Physical Qualities Handspun wool, dye, 45 × 25 1/4 in. (114.3 × 64.2 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Dena S. Katzenberg, Baltimore
Object Number 1978.95.13a-b
8 corner tassles; whipstitched on top of each shoulder; black center with red bands at each end; these borders are each decorated with four turquoise-colored hourglass figures.
Katzenberg, Dena. And eagles sweep across the sky. Indian textiles of the North American West. Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1977, cat. no. 11, p. 52.

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