Blanket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Mar 1931
name: label: Donor Name
content: Victor J. Evans
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "The background of the rug is red. The design elements are prevailingly diamond shaped with stepped edges. The diamonds themselves are zigzag. The decorative colors are in blue and white. This was apparently collected by Mr. MacIllvaine. The description of the tag says: red, white, indigo, and green. It is claimed that Gen. Kearney [presumably General Stephen Watts Kearny?] in the early occupation of the southwest owned this blanket and was after owned by Kit Carson. This is not authenticated. The blanket was made about 1850."
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/500 . Identified there as a Navajo sarape, Late Classic period, 1860-1875, in Saltillo diamond decoration.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 19 Aug 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Arizona / New Mexico, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Navajo (Diné)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 113605
label: USNM Number
content: E357373-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Blanket