Loom
name: label: Collector
content: Mrs. Katherine T. Dodge
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Katherine T. Dodge
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "REPLACEMENT CARD: INFORMATION COPIED FROM LEDGER,AUGUST,1983. "GIFT - UNIV. OF PORTO RICO, RIO PIEDRAS, P.R. OCT. 26, 1928." Model Loom. Red background w/ train engine, tender, & part of boxcar. 2 men walking on train, 1 waving in front of it. Geometric designs on borders." Information from "Textiles of the American Southwest" webpage entry on ths artifact: Curio loom with unfinished pictorial weaving, Navajo. Collected in Arizona. Donated by Mrs. K.T. Dodge in 1909. Dimensions: 18 in. (warp, including wooden rods) x 13.25 in. (weft). Technique: Incomplete weaving on a loom with one wooden heddle and small yarn bundles attached. Thread count: Warp = 9/in.; Weft = 14/in. Fibers: Warp = 4-ply cotton twine, red, S-twist. Weft = 4-ply commercial yarn, blue, gold, red, white, and green, S-twist, Z-spin. Design: A pictorial with a train and three human figures on a red background. Blue and white yarns are used to represent smoke from the train engine. The bottom has thin blue, red, white, gold, and black stripes and a fret pattern. The top has a pattern of blue, white, red and yellow zigzags.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Jun 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Arizona, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Navajo (Diné)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 050291
label: USNM Number
content: E255631-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Loom / Blanket