Blanket
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Washington Matthews
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Caroline Matthews
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Blanket: Black and white stripes, woven on dark bayeta with long hairs; 79 x 64 in. (Museum description includes colors, red, white, blue, black and light green; measurements 64 x 77 in. This specimen illustrated in Mathews, 1884, Fig. 50. Also in Amsden, 1934, Plate 98. Amsden states this probably woven in period 1880-1884. Ilus.: Handbk. of N. Amer. Indians, Vol. 10, Southwest, Fig. 2, pg. 507." Identified in Handbook caption as "Man's shoulder blanket of black, white, red (bayeta), dark and light blue wool. Often called chief blankets, although not assoicated with rank, the earliest were striped only. In the second phase a block design was added to the stripes and in the third phase, shown here, the blocks were replaced by a diamond motif. When worn, the joining of the ends at the front of the body forms a repeat of the diamond on the back. Size 162.5 by 198.0 cm, collected by Washington Matthews, 1880 - 1882."
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: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 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)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 057003
label: USNM Number
content: E281473-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Blanket