Blanket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 26 May 2009
label: Collection Date
content: 1977 to 2006
name: label: Collector
content: Joseph Fabish
label: Donor Name
content: Christian Pettersen
notes: label: Notes
content: Wool blanket, aniline and natural dyes. Weft-faced tapestry weave. Average count: 7/13. Top and bottom borders are red and lana (natural wool) stripes. The side borders are lana triangles. The background is split between red and black. The pattern is of black and pink, and red and pink rosettes on checkerboard.
label: Notes
content: "The blanket…has the wide bands at the top and bottom seen in blankets woven after the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. The triangular side borders, although originated in the 1940s, is seen today in blanket weaving. The addition of pink to one of the rosettes would have only occurred after the 1950s. Rarely are two types of wool blended in the blanket area. The blanket…was collected in Puyalli, outside of the blanket area proper, on the Ancash side of the blanket area. I suggest that the blanket is 20 years old. I propose a date of manufacture of 1985 +/- 5 years." (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 light test and demonstrates good weight. There is wear and tear due to normal usage. There is a set pattern to the blanket of a chevron but giving the illusion of squares and rosettes. (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: 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: E432111-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Blanket
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 175 cm
label: Width
content: 142 cm