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. Average count: 8 x 15. The top and bottom borders are stripes of pink and chrome blue, while the side borders are blank and pink triangles. The background is garnet red with bands of chevrons, figurative rosettes and diamond. Some patterns were derived from Punto Cruz (cross stitch) magazine, maybe in the dechado pattern?
label: Notes
content: "[The blanket] was collected in Puyalli from Maria Paz Garcia where it was also likely woven. Neatly aligned bands of cross stitch and chevron motifs surrounded by a field of diamonds enclosed by triangular side borders and bands top and bottom attest to a blanket well executed in design and color. The blanket is relatively unus4ed. The dyes are fast. There is a nap covering the surface which was raised after the two halves were seamed. The nap is still intact, and indication of little wear and tear by usage before collection. The evidence seems to lead to the decade of the 1990s. [In this period] blankets continued to be woven especially by weavers outside of towns. The most common design of the period was dechado (S. sampler: Punto Cruz), sometimes bright colored enredaderas or corazones. The blanket is representative of blankets woven during the late 1990s when there was a revival of the local economy and therefore weaving in the blanket area. I suggest a date of manufacture sometime during the late 1990s, specifically 1995." (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. There is no insect damage. There is no dye running. The blanket is negative to weakly positive to light test and demonstrates good weight. The colors are vibrant. The textile is in stable condition. There is very mild wear and tear. (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: 17 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Puyalli, Ancash, 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: E432114-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Blanket
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 194 cm
label: Width
content: 158 cm