Rug

Museum number:
2-64942
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020064942
Accession number:
Acc.3586
Description:
Crystal wavy lines; 3 design bands with diamonds (2 grey on yellow, 1 beige on white); other bands tones of rusts, beige, yellows, grey and brown. Handspun wool; vegetable dyes in tans, gray, brown, green; natural white.
Donor:
Jean Moss and Roger Moss
Collection place:
Crystal, San Juan County, New Mexico
Verbatim coll. place:
Navajo
Culture or time period:
Navajo
Maker or artist:
Nan Bitsi
Collector:
Jean Moss and Roger Moss
Collection date:
1970
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Rugs (textiles)
Function:
4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 156 centimeters and width 117 centimeters
Comment:
Purchased...for $225.00 (wholesale price)." Published: H. P. Mera's Navajo Textile Arts (1975 reprint), p. 116, pl. G.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Rug, accession number 2-64942, described as Crystal wavy lines; 3 design bands with diamonds (2 grey on yellow, 1 beige on white); other bands tones of rusts, beige, yellows, grey and brown. Handspun wool; vegetable dyes in tans, gray, brown, green; natural white.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Rug, accession number 2-64942, described as Crystal wavy lines; 3 design bands with diamonds (2 grey on yellow, 1 beige on white); other bands tones of rusts, beige, yellows, grey and brown. Handspun wool; vegetable dyes in tans, gray, brown, green; natural white.

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