Loom model and textile fragment

Museum number:
2-45404
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Alternate number:
3-13177 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.1950E
Description:
Textile in progress: red ground with central design of elaborate diamond design with black and white striped center, green and white geometric designs on exterior; wood bar top and bottom. Wool in tapestry technique; cotton warp.
Donor:
Lila Morris O'Neale
Collection place:
Southwestern United States
Verbatim coll. place:
Southwest
Culture or time period:
Navajo
Collector:
Lila Morris O'Neale
Collection date:
1948
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Looms (textile tools)
Function:
1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Accession date:
January 1948
Context of use:
Model made for sale.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 31 centimeters
Comment:
Not Mexico in origin. Found in O'Neale's lab prob. after her death in Feb. of 1948 (our record must be incorrect).
Loans:
S1978-1979 #12: Merritt College (WHOOPS!9, 1978–February 1, 1979)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Loom model and textile fragment, accession number 2-45404, described as Textile in progress: red ground with central design of elaborate diamond design with black and white striped center, green and white geometric designs on exterior; wood bar top and bottom. Wool in tapestry technique; cotton warp.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Loom model and textile fragment, accession number 2-45404, described as Textile in progress: red ground with central design of elaborate diamond design with black and white striped center, green and white geometric designs on exterior; wood bar top and bottom. Wool in tapestry technique; cotton warp.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Loom model and textile fragment, accession number 2-45404, described as Textile in progress: red ground with central design of elaborate diamond design with black and white striped center, green and white geometric designs on exterior; wood bar top and bottom. Wool in tapestry technique; cotton warp.

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