Blanket

Museum number:
2-10753
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.562
Description:
Striped lightning design; handspun yarn; bands of natural grey separate bands with analine dyed red ground; zigzag serrates in orange and black. Handspun wool in tapestry weave.
Donor:
Estate of Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Southwestern United States
Verbatim coll. place:
Southwest
Culture or time period:
Navajo
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection date:
1870-1889
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Blankets (coverings)
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Production date:
1870-1889
Accession date:
1920
Context of use:
Child's wearing blanket.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 52 inches and width 33 inches
Comment:
Design characteristic of that period [ca. 1870s-1880s]. (fide Joe Ben Wheat, 1975)
Loans:
S1967-1968 #65: Design Department (UC Berkeley)/Joanne Segal Brandford (November 30, 1967–December 5, 1967) and S1971-1972 #113: City of Palo Alto (March 24, 1972–June 5, 1972)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Blanket, accession number 2-10753, described as Striped lightning design; handspun yarn; bands of natural grey separate bands with analine dyed red ground; zigzag serrates in orange and black. Handspun wool in tapestry weave.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Blanket, accession number 2-10753, described as Striped lightning design; handspun yarn; bands of natural grey separate bands with analine dyed red ground; zigzag serrates in orange and black. Handspun wool in tapestry weave.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Blanket, accession number 2-10753, described as Striped lightning design; handspun yarn; bands of natural grey separate bands with analine dyed red ground; zigzag serrates in orange and black. Handspun wool in tapestry weave.

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