Blanket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 13 Sep 1945
name: label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Whitman Cross
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Basic color of red; design consists of a row of connected diamonds made of stripe of black and white serrate-edged down each side, each one containing a similarly made cross. Down the center is a row of similarly constructed, connected rectangles. Joe Ben Wheat, 1973: "Serape, Late Classic. Plain tapestry, fine. Red ground is probably of raveled, carded and respun flannel - Center is marked by vertically placed pair of blue white meanders opposed and joined at top and bottom and expanded at center. In each half is a pair of vertically alligned terraced zigzaged blue white stripes opposed so as to enclose diamond spaces in the center of which are hollow crosses in blue white quarters top and bottom. Similar crosses occur in the outward open angles along the side of the blanket. date of manuf. ca. 1875-80.""
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/645 . Identified there as a Navajo sarape.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 19 Aug 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Colorado, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Navajo (Diné)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 170706
label: USNM Number
content: E383746-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Blanket