Blanket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 26 May 2009
label: Collection Date
content: 2004
name: label: Collector
content: Joseph Fabish
label: Donor Name
content: Christian Pettersen
notes: label: Notes
content: Wool blanket, aniline dyes. Weft-faced tapestry weave. There are single color bands woven at top and bottom. The background is garnet red, pattern is orange. The interior design is in the Dechado style, in the Enrededara (S. vine) [flowering Plants in Pots] pattern. Average count: 8 x 16.
label: Notes
content: "The blanket was collected in 2004 in Tulpo pueblo from Carlos Garcia Meza. …enredadera blankets were first woven around Tulpo during the 1940s and 1950s. The designs became popular and spread throughout the blanket weaving region except for Puyalli. Two-colored blankets were also very common to blankets pre-dating the 1920s. As the weavers were able to obtain more dye stuffs colorful blankets began to appear. By the 1950s there was an explosion of colors in blankets from the regions, but by the 1980s the Peruvian economy, weakened after years of neglect by the military who ran the country for more than a decade showed little signs of recovery. With the Sendero uprising and a continued weak economy dye stuffs were not only difficult to purchase but also difficult to obtain. By the mid 1980s through the mid 1990s the predominantly colorful blankets woven between 1950 and 1980 were replaced by blankets woven with just two or three colors. Because of the lack of different colors and based on its weight and overall condition in tandem with single colored wide bands at the top and bottom of the blanket I suggest the blanket is around 20-25 years old at the time of collection. I suggest a date of manufacture of 1985." (Information abridged from the 2-volume manuscript "Age Analysis for the Christian Pettersen Collection of Huamachuco Blankets to the Smithsonian Institution", by Joseph Fabish, January 20, 2009. These volumes are housed at the National Anthropological Archives.)
label: Notes
content: There is no fraying, insect damage, running of dyes or damage. The blanket is weakly positive to light test but demonstrates good weight. The colors remain vibrant. (Information abridged from the 2-volume manuscript "Age Analysis for the Christian Pettersen Collection of Huamachuco Blankets to the Smithsonian Institution", by Joseph Fabish, January 20, 2009. These volumes are housed at the National Anthropological Archives.)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 16 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Tulpo Pueblo, La Libertad, Peru, South America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Quechua
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2047706
label: USNM Number
content: E432105-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Blanket
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 193 cm
label: Width
content: 149 cm