Blanket
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Washington Matthews
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Caroline Matthews
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Stripes in gray, blue, black and red. (Museum description includes also white and green, but omits black; measurements, 55 x 77 inches). This specimen illustrated in Mathews, 1884, Fig. 55; also in Amsden, 1934, Plate 47. Thus made prior to 1884. 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," M. Weigle, ed. Santa Fe: Ancient City Press, 1983."
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: Notes
content: Illus. and described/analyzed Pl. 23, p. 170 in Wheat, Joe Ben, and Ann Lane Hedlund. 2003. Blanket weaving in the Southwest. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. Identified there as a Pueblo wearing blanket, ca. 1880.
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/2 . Identified there as a Diyugi-type wearing blanket, probably Pueblo.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 17 Aug 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) (?)
label: Culture
content: Pueblo (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 057003
label: USNM Number
content: E281478-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Blanket