Blanket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 May 1876
name: label: Donor Name
content: Major John W. Powell
notes: label: Notes
content: Information from "Textiles of the American Southwest" webpage entry on this artifact: Blanket, Hopi. Collected by John Wesley Powell and O. D. Wheeler in the Hopi area of northeastern Arizona in 1876. Dimensions: 44 in. (warp) x 31 in. (weft). Technique: Plain tapestry weave. Thread count: Warp = 8/in.; Weft = 30/in. Fibers: Warp = 1-ply handspun wool yarn, natural brown, Z-spin. Weft = 1-ply handspun wool yarn, natural cream and brown-black, Z-spin; and 1- and 2-strand indigo-dyed (?) light blue handspun wool yarn, Z-spin. Selvage = 2-strand, 2-ply handspun wool yarn, natural cream on sides, light blue on ends; Z-spin, S-twist. Corners = warp and weft selvages are knotted separately; two corners are augmented with white strands, two with blue strands. Design: White ground decorated with a series of narrow compound stripe zones, each consisting of three narrow brown stripes separated by two blue stripes, except at ends where color scheme is reversed.
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/1106. Identified there as a small blanket, Hopi.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 17 Aug 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Arizona, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Hopi
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 76A00060
label: USNM Number
content: E23160-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Blanket