Woolen Blanket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 16 Jul 1947
name: label: Collector
content: Gen. Earl D. Thomas
label: Donor Name
content: Lt. Col. Robert Alexander Jr.
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Loosely woven of native spun yarns dyed with vegetable dyes in orange, black, red and green colors, also in natural white and black. Decorative design consists of narrow horizontal stripes of alternating colors, plain near margins, and elsewhere regularly reinforced with small rectangular blocks of same color as nearest stripe entirely unrelieved by zoning or combinations of details to form larger designs. Collected by General Earl D. Thomas, U.S.A., 5th Cavalry, grandfather of donor."
label: Notes
content: Illus. and described/analyzed Pl. 152, p. 301 in Wheat, Joe Ben, and Ann Lane Hedlund. 2003. Blanket weaving in the Southwest. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. Identified there as a Navajo Diyugi, collected 1872 - 1878 by General Earl D. Thomas.
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/125 . Identified there as a Navajo Diyugi.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 17 Aug 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Arizona, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Navajo (Diné)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 176804
label: USNM Number
content: E385736-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Blanket