Unknown
Zapotec-Style Blanket Depicting Three Warriors and Four Eagles Holding Snakes
Unknown, 1929-1938
Scroll
Unknown
Zapotec-Style Blanket Depicting Three Warriors and Four Eagles Holding Snakes
Unknown, 1929-1938
Physical Qualities
Wool, dyes, 81 × 61 in. (205.8 × 155 cm.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Florence Reese Winslow
Object Number
1953.220.A.27
Fringe on 2 ends; central panel flanked by bars of red, white, green, black, yellow, blue. Central panel has white ground and is subdivided by black lines into central panel and 3 panels on either side. Side panels have border of black serrated border on outside. Central panel contains brown, human figure with multi-color headdress, tunic, sandals, and pendant around his neck; holds snake-like figure with purple triangle for tail in one hand and purple and brown knife or club in other. 3 side panels have central panel with brown human in multicolor clothes and headdress holding a fan-like object, top and bottom side panels have brown eagle with either green or blue snake in its mouth and eagle sits on multicolor cactus. Woven in 2 pieces and sewn together at the center.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1953; Florence Reese Winslow, Baraboo, WI.
Culture
Unknown
2000-01-01 00:00:00–2000-01-01 00:00:00
