Blanket
- Museum number:
- 2-10753
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020010753
- 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:
- width 33 inches and length 52 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)
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