Blanket
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Washington Matthews
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Caroline Matthews
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Red, white and blue. (This is Museum description with measurements; not enumerated in Mrs. Matthews' list). Illustrated in Amsden, Navajo Weaving, 1934. Plate 65. He states "Made probably in the eighties"."
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/1505 . Identified there as a Navajo single saddle blanket or more likely a throw.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 Aug 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Arizona (not certain) / New Mexico (not certain), 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: 057003
label: USNM Number
content: E281491-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Saddle Blanket