Small Striped Woolen Blanket Dress
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Dec 1872
name: label: Collector
content: Major John W. Powell
label: Donor Name
content: Major John W. Powell
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "DARK BROWN CENTER, RED BORDER, STRIPED CORNERS. POSSIBLY NAVAJO MANUFACTURE, ACCORDING TO ANN HEDLUND, ARIZ. STATE UNIV. 5/1987." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "BLANKET.--MADE OF NATIVE WOOL DYED BY THE WEAVERS. WOVEN IN STRIPES OF RED, BLUE AND BLACK. 11,168. ZUNI INDIANS, 1872. COLLECTED BY MAJ. J. W. POWELL." IDENTIFIED AS NAVAJO DRESS BY DR. JOE BEN WHEAT 1982. RESULTS OF 1982 DYE ANALYSIS BY DR. DAVID WENGER, UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, BOULDER: RAVELED CRIMSON YARN - COCHINEAL DYE; ROSY CRIMSON YARN - COCHINEAL DYE.
label: Notes
content: Illus. and described/analyzed Pl. 43, p. 192 in Wheat, Joe Ben, and Ann Lane Hedlund. 2003. Blanket weaving in the Southwest. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. Identified there as a Navajo two-piece dress, banded borders, one panel,1850-1870.
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/97
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: Zuni (A:shiwi)
label: Culture
content: Navajo (Diné)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 002357
label: USNM Number
content: E11168-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dress
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 123.2 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 78.7 cm