"B'ayette," Navajo Blanket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 5 Aug 1903
label: Collection Date
content: 1881
name: label: Collector
content: Mrs Matilda C. Stevenson
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: ""B,AYETTE," OWNED BY GANADO MUCHO, THE GREAT COUNCIL CHIEF OF THE NAVAJOS, AND HIGHLY VALUED BY HIM. PURCHASED BY MRS. STEVENSON FROM THIS CHIEF IN 1881. ... 12/1965 RETURNED. WORN FROM YEARS OF BEING ON THE FLOOR OF THE DIRECTOR'S OFFICE. WILL BE VACUUMED AND FUMIGATED BEFORE STORAGE." ... PROVENIENCE NOTE: PROVENIENCE WAS NOT SPECIFIED; HOWEVER, GANADO MUCHO LIVED IN THE AREA OF HUBBELL'S TRADING POST; TRADING POST WAS PURCHASED IN 1878 BY LORENZO HUBBELL, WHO NAMED IT AFTER HIS FRIEND, GANADO MUCHO (SEE HANDBOOK OF NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS, VOL. 10, P. 521.) Information from "Textiles of the American Southwest" webpage entry on this artifact: Blanket, Navajo. Purchased from Ganado Mucho by Matilda Coxe Stevenson, probably near Ganado, Arizona, in 1881. Dimensions: 74.5 in. (warp) x 52 in. (weft). Technique: Plain tapestry weave with lazy lines. Thread count: Warp = 8-9/in.; Weft = averages 26/in. Fibers: Warp = 1-ply handspun wool yarn, natural white, Z-spin. Weft = 1-ply handspun wool yarn, vegetal-dyed pale yellow and dark blue (indigo), Z-spin; 1-ply raveled commerical wool yarn, synthetic-dyed scarlet, Z-spin; 4-ply commercial wool yarn, synthetic-dyed yellow green and pale green faded to blue, Z-spin, S-twist. Selvage = end selvages are 2-ply raveled wool yarn, syntethic-dyed crimson, Z-spin, S-twist. Edge selvages are 3-ply commercial wool yarn, synthetic-dyed red, S-spin, Z-twist. Design: Late Classic sarape-style blanket with a red background. The blanket is divided into three main zones by wide, dark blue terraced-edged bands bounded by multicolor, terrace-edged parallelograms. The zones are crossed by half Saltillo-style diamonds.
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/588 . Identified there as a Navajo sarape.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 Aug 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Ganado, Near (not certain), Navajo Reservation / Apache County (not certain), Arizona, 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: 041372
label: USNM Number
content: E220190-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Blanket