Shawl Blanket (Manta)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 12 Jun 1872
name: label: Donor Name
content: Gov William F. Arny
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "WOVEN WOOL; RED CENTER, WITH FIGURED BORDER IN COLOR. MADE BY PUEBLO INDIANS. POSSIBLY NAVAJO MANUFACTURE, ACCORDING TO ANN HEDLUND, ARIZ. STATE UNIV. 5/1987." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "SHAWL BLANKET.--WOVEN WOOL; RED CENTER, WITH FIGURED BORDER IN COLOR. MADE BY PUEBLO INDIANS. DIMENSIONS 4 FEET 9 INCHES BY 3 FEET 5 INCHES. NEW MEXICO, 1872. 11,316. GIFT OF GOV. W. F. M. ARNY." IDENTIFIED AS NAVAJO MANTA BY DR. JOE BEN WHEAT, 1982. RESULTS OF 1982 DYE ANALYSIS BY DR. DAVID WENGER, UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, BOULDER: 3-PLY RED YARN - COCHINEAL DYE.
label: Notes
content: Illus. and described/analyzed Pl. 33, p. 182 in Wheat, Joe Ben, and Ann Lane Hedlund. 2003. Blanket weaving in the Southwest. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
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/90. Identified there as a fancy manta, Pueblo or Navajo.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 17 Aug 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: New Mexico, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Pueblo (?)
label: Culture
content: Navajo (Diné) (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 002421
label: USNM Number
content: E11316-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Blanket
physicalDescription: label: Unknown - Object
content: 145 cm
label: Unknown - Object
content: 104 cm