Blanket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Oct 1997
label: Collection Date
content: C. 1980
name: label: Collector
content: Mr. Eugene H. Boudreau
label: Donor Name
content: Mr. Eugene H. Boudreau
notes: label: Notes
content: Museum tag no.28? Information from "Textiles of the American Southwest" webpage entry on this artifact: Blanket, Tarahumara. Collected by Eugene H. Boudreau around 1980 in Piedras Verdes, south of Cerocahui, Chihuahua. Dimensions: 48 in. (56 in. with fringe) (warp) x 37.5 in. (weft). Technique: Plain weave with rag-weft cloth and wool. Fringe is braided warp with knotted ends. Thread count: Warp = 6/in.; Weft = 10/in. Fibers: Warp = 1-ply, natural brown and white wool yarn, Z-spin. Weft = 1-ply natural brown wool yarn, Z-spin; and slightly spun strips of commercial, mostly cotton cloth in denim, orange, red, blue, yellow, green, and pink some of which is printed. Design: Striped in pink, white, brown, orange, and multi-color fabric. Brown wool wefts alternate with commercial cloth wefts.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 27 Jul 2016
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Piedras Verdes, Chihuahua, Mexico, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tarahumara (Rarámuri, Ralámuli)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 416144
label: USNM Number
content: E429098-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Blanket
physicalDescription: label: Length - Warp Length
content: 112 cm
label: Width - Weft Length
content: 91 cm
label: Length - Length Of Tassels
content: 13 cm