Blanket

Museum number:
2-48459
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Alternate number:
3-2388 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.562
Description:
Serape-bed blanket. Red ground with multicolor diamonds composed of rectangular terraced designs. Purple bands at long ends, triangles at side borders. 2 loom widths sewn together. Tapestry woven analine dyed 4-ply Germantown wool yarn weft. Cotton warp.
Donor:
Estate of Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Chimayo, Santa Fe County, New Mexico
Verbatim coll. place:
New Mexico; Santa Fe; Chimayo
Culture or time period:
Spanish American
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
1920
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Sarapes
Function:
4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Accession date:
1920
Context of use:
Serape or wearing blanket by day, bed blanket at night. Att. by E. Boyd and Dorothy Boyd Bowen, International Folk Art Foundation, 1971.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
width 112 centimeters and length 2.7 centimeters
Comment:
Design on this particular example shows strong Navaho influence. Made by male Spanish-American weaver.
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Blanket, accession number 2-48459, described as Serape-bed blanket. Red ground with multicolor diamonds composed of rectangular terraced designs. Purple bands at long ends, triangles at side borders. 2 loom widths sewn together. Tapestry woven analine dyed 4-ply Germantown wool yarn weft. Cotton warp.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Blanket, accession number 2-48459, described as Serape-bed blanket. Red ground with multicolor diamonds composed of rectangular terraced designs. Purple bands at long ends, triangles at side borders. 2 loom widths sewn together. Tapestry woven analine dyed 4-ply Germantown wool yarn weft. Cotton warp.

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