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Zapotec-Style Blanket with Design of Aztec Calendar

Unknown, 1929-1938

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Unknown

Zapotec-Style Blanket with Design of Aztec Calendar

Unknown, 1929-1938

Physical Qualities Handspun wool, 86 × 59 1/2 in. (218.5 × 151.1 cm.)
Credit Line Bequest of Florence Reese Winslow
Object Number 1953.220.A.26
Two end fringes; white ground woven in 2 panels stitched down the center. Central medallion has brown face in center framed by 8 concentric circles in solid or multiple colors including pink, blue, yellow, brown, green, orange, red, black. Medallion framed by black border with green and white 'T's. Central panel framed by 14 boxes containing multicolored anthropomorphic figures; 4 corner boxes contain bird with snake or cactus. White, green, white, red bands.
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

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