Small Striped Woolen Blanket
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: "WHITE AND BLACK. THIS MAY BE A JERGA; SEE SPANISH TEXTILE TRADITION OF NEW MEXICO AND COLORADO, MUSEUM OF INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART, MU. OF N. MEX. PRESS, 1979, PG. 146-152. - BGS '82."
label: Notes
content: Information from "Textiles of the American Southwest" webpage entry on this artifact: Jerga, Zuni. Collected by John Wesley Powell, probably at Zuni, New Mexico, ca. 1872. Dimensions: 29 in. (warp) x 36 in. (weft). Technique: Diagonal twill weave (2 x 2). Thread count: Warp = 23/in.; Weft = 18/in. Fibers: Warp and weft = 1-ply handspun wool yarn, natural brown and cream, Z-spin. Selvage: 3-strand, 2-ply handspun wool yarn, natural brown, Z-spin, S-twist. Medial tassles a third of the way up from the bottom, braided for about 2 inches. Corners = warp and weft selvages are knotted separately; on three corners the selvages are then braided together for about 2.5 inches while the fourth corner is open. One corner also has a doubled strand of indigo-dyed handspun wool braided in. Design: Plaid twill design.
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/1316 . It is identified there as a Plaid Blanket, Bachelor Blanket, Hopi (collected at Zuni).
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: Hopi (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 002357
label: USNM Number
content: E11166-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Blanket