Rug, cotton and wool; cotton warp; alternating wide gray bands; series of narrow red, purple, yellow, etc., bands, some with zigzag designs; several squares of orange, yellow and red. Joins are "lazy lines.
Donor:
Glbert A. Pitman
Collection place:
Gallup, McKinley County, New Mexico
Verbatim coll. place:
New Mexico; McKinley; Gallup
Culture or time period:
Navajo
Collector:
Glbert A. Pitman
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Rugs (textiles)
Function:
4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Production date:
ca. 1880-1900
Accession date:
1962
Context of use:
Originally purchased from a trader.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
width 66.5 inches and length 105 inches
Comment:
Remarks: $100.00 evaluation.
Loans:
S1962-1963 #35: Oakland Public Museum (January 30, 1963–March 29, 1963) and S1963-1964 #42: Department of Geography (UC Berkeley) (November 15, 1963–December 3, 1965)