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name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Washington Matthews
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Caroline Matthews
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Red bayeta which appears to have been cut in strips, then woven; old when bought; 52 x 72 in. (Museum description includes blue, green and yellow, and gives measurements as 54 x 70 inches). This specimen illustrated in Mathews, 1884, Fig. 50b; also in Amsden, 1934, Plate 66. Thus it antedates 1884. Serape, cloth strip - J.B.W. [Joe Ben Wheat}, 1973."
label: Notes
content: Collected by Dr. Washington Matthews between the years 1880 and 1884, and lent to the museum by Mrs. Caroline Matthews in 1914.
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/828 . 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, Southwest, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Navajo (Diné)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 057003
label: USNM Number
content: E281466-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Blanket