Blanket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 26 May 2009
label: Collection Date
content: 1977 to 2006
name: label: Collector
content: Joseph Fabish
label: Donor Name
content: Christian Pettersen
notes: label: Notes
content: Wool blanket, aniline and natural dyes. Weft-faced tapestry weave. Average count: 8 x 16. Garnet/Burgundy background with banded top and bottom of red. The style is dechado with bands of rosettes and airplanes. Figures are pink and natural wool colored.
label: Notes
content: "The blanket…was collected in Mollebamba from Aide Marino Contreras. It was woven by Ermitano Ruiz Paredes who [is] well known for innovation in color, motif, and design in his blankets. The “airplane” border design is one of, if not the most, difficult motifs woven into blanket border. The airplane motif was first seen in blankets woven by Alejandro Narvaez during the 1960s becoming a popular border motif in his blankets by the 1970s. It is likely around this time that Ermitano placed the motif in this blanket. The blanket is well used and damage is limited to wear and tear over time. There is no ribete to help determine just how much wear and tear over time the blanket has experienced. The blanket was owned and used by a mature adult who likely acquitted the textile while young. Women tend to chores of the home … as well as grazing their animals while sitting and spinning the yarns used for weaving. Men are harder on blankets…the position of the textile on the bed is also of importance, textiles being worn and torn faster on the top and bottom moreover than blankets in the middle. Commonly more than two textiles are used for covering especially during the cold winder and rainy months of the sierra. The blanket was owned by a middle aged female. It is positive to light penetration, evidence that the blanket is well used. It takes a well woven blanket more than 35 years for it to begin to show damage over and above normal wear and tear. The blanket is not damaged but is very well worn. I suggest that the blanket is 35-40 years old and its date of manufacture is 1970 +/- 5 years." (Information abridged from the 2-volume manuscript "Age Analysis for the Christian Pettersen Collection of Huamachuco Blankets to the Smithsonian Institution", by Joseph Fabish, January 20, 2009. These volumes are housed at the National Anthropological Archives.)
label: Notes
content: There is no fraying. There is no insect damage. There is no dye running. The blanket is negative to light test and demonstrates moderate weight. The textile remains in stable condition with very heavy wear and tear due to usage. The colors are muted. (Information abridged from the 2-volume manuscript "Age Analysis for the Christian Pettersen Collection of Huamachuco Blankets to the Smithsonian Institution", by Joseph Fabish, January 20, 2009. These volumes are housed at the National Anthropological Archives.)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 17 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Mollebamba, La Libertad, Peru, South America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Quechua
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2047706
label: USNM Number
content: E432118-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Blanket
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 194 cm
label: Width
content: 160 cm