Blanket

Museum number:
2-10755
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
4989 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.562
Description:
Striped lightning design; red ground with green and blue zigzags; several white bands. "Balleta".
Donor:
Estate of Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Southwestern United States
Verbatim coll. place:
Southwest
Culture or time period:
Navajo
Collector:
Benham Indian Trading Company; Albuquerque, NM
Collection date:
1920
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Blankets (coverings)
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Production date:
ca. 1875-1880
Accession date:
1920
Context of use:
Child's wearing blanket (fide Joe Ben Wheat, Dec. 1975).
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
width 39 inches and length 61 inches
Loans:
S1967-1968 #65: Design Department (UC Berkeley)/Joanne Segal Brandford (November 30, 1967–December 5, 1967)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Blanket, accession number 2-10755, described as Striped lightning design; red ground with green and blue zigzags; several white bands. "Balleta".
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Blanket, accession number 2-10755, described as Striped lightning design; red ground with green and blue zigzags; several white bands. "Balleta".Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Blanket, accession number 2-10755, described as Striped lightning design; red ground with green and blue zigzags; several white bands. "Balleta".

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