Blanket
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Washington Matthews
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Caroline Matthews
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Blue and black, narrow stripes; 67 x 52 inches. (Museum description includes white, and gives measurements as 53 x 72 inches). Illustrated in Mathews 1884. Fig. 54; also in Amsden, 1934. Plate 46. Amsden notes its "strong Hopi character" but bows to Mathews' Navajo identification. Says it "antedates 1884". Weft-faced textile of wool warp and weft. Narrow blue and black-brown stripes alternate across width with a single, blue and white stripe every 16-18 cm. Three lengths of yarn form edge warp (ie., tripled edge warp). Blanket is probably of Zuni manufacture rather than Navajo. See Kate Peck Kent's "Spanish, Navajo, or Pueblo? A Guide to the Identification of Nineteenth-century Southwestern Textiles," p. 158, in Hispanic Arts and Ethnohistory in the Southwest, M. Weigle, ed. Santa Fe: Ancient City Press, 1983." On exhibit NMNH Exhibit Hall 11, Case 14, 1955 - 1989. Exhibit label identified as striped serape.
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: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 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) (?)
label: Culture
content: Zuni (A:shiwi) (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 057003
label: USNM Number
content: E281469-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Blanket