Navajo double saddle blanket, "Banded"; woven in natural, aniline-dyed handspun yarn with a design of three panels of pairs of red bands bisected by narrow orange and aniline-dyed striping, the center stripe tan, with a natural white background.
Donor:
Louis McRae and Ray Wilson
Collection place:
Eastern Arizona
Culture or time period:
Navajo
Collector:
Ray Wilson
Materials:
Wool (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Saddle blankets (animal equipment) and Saddle blankets (blanket type)
Function:
1.4 Transportation
Accession date:
May 10, 2002
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
width 86.36 centimeters and length 135.89 centimeters