Chief's blanket," Second Phase; top, center and bottom bands are dark brown, red (cochineal-dyed bayeta), and indigo with indigo blocks on cochineal ground; there are ten alternating white and brown bands on the body of the blanket (5 above and 5 below the center band); all handspun except for red (1-ply unraveled bayeta); green wool selvedge; tapestry weave.
Donor:
Wilma Lloyd
Collection place:
Fort Leavenworth, Leavenworth, Kansas
Verbatim coll. place:
Kansas; Leavenworth; Fort Leavenworth
Production place:
Southwestern United States
Culture or time period:
Navajo
Collector:
Selden Wiley Jones
Collection date:
ca. 1860s
Materials:
Bayeta (single-ply cochineal-dyed bayeta) and Wool (textile) (handspun wool)
Taxon:
Dactylopius coccus
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Blankets (coverings)
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Production date:
ca. 1850-1865
Accession date:
June 1, 1975
Context of use:
Wearing blanket. Said to have been given to collector at Ft. Leavenworth by Sitting Bull who had been wounded and captured.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 1.7 meters and width 1.21 meters
Comment:
Conservation: Specimen heavily soiled with soot, dust upon arrival in Museum. Dry-cleaned at Virginia Cleaners, Berkeley, but one face of blanket still not as clean as other. Treated with DDT in alcohol July 1975. Made by: Navaho woman. Photo: yes. Role in trade: See acc. env. for letter stating given to gr.fa. by "a young army man." References: Kahlenberg, Mary and A. Berlant, The Navajo Blanket, pp. 29-30.
Loans:
S1980-1981 #58: University of California, Davis (April 3, 1981–September 12, 1981)