Cotton Wove Blanket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 2 Jun 1877
name: label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Georgia Stout
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "HEAVY WHITE COARSE COTTON BLANKET, WITH A SINGLE LIGHT RED OR ROSE COLORED THREAD JUST BELOW THE EDGE ALL AROUND. THE DONOR SAID THIS WAS MADE BY A PIMA WOMAN. ILLUS.: HNDBK. N. AMER. INDIANS, VOL 10 SOUTHWEST, FIG. 2, PG. 152. ANOTHER SPECIMEN, CAT. NO. 76009 IS IN THE COLLECTION." Information from "Textiles of the American Southwest" webpage entry on this artifact: Blanket, Pima. Collected by Georgia Stout in Arizona and donated by her to the Smithsonian Institution in 1877. Dimensions: 80 in. (warp) x 62 in. (weft). Technique: Plain weave with small corner ties. Thread count: Warp = 15/in.; Weft = 12/in. Fibers: Warp = 1-ply natural white cotton yarn, Z-spin. Weft = 1-ply natural white cotton yarn, Z-spin. Design: Heavy white cotton blanket with a framing line in light red cotton yarn. Some staining.
label: Notes
content: There is an entry on this artifact in The Joe Ben Wheat Southwest Textile Database, Arizona State Museum, The University of Arizona, www.statemuseum.arizona.edu. Direct link to entry: http://www.statemuseum.arizona.edu/coll/textile/jbw_southwest_textile_database/textiles/analysis/1349. Identified there as a blanket, Pima.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 17 Aug 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Arizona, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Pima (Akimel O'odham; Akimel O'otham)
label: Culture
content: Maricopa (Piipaash; Pee-Posh)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 77A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E27828-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Blanket