Blanket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 26 May 2009
label: Collection Date
content: 2003
name: label: Collector
content: Joseph Fabish
label: Donor Name
content: Christian Pettersen
notes: label: Notes
content: Wool blanket, with cotton binding, aniline and natural dyes. Weft-faced tapestry weave. Average count: 7/18. Binding is red, border is burgundy and lilac triangles. Background is pink, with geometric pattern, initials “GP” worked into the center.
label: Notes
content: "The white in this blanket is cotton. The use of cotton made its debut into blanket weaving during the 1940s and by the 1950s it was found regularly as a white colored yarn in the blanket fields. The blanket was collected from Luzmila Paredes Ascate in La Yeguada in 2003. The blanket belonged to her husband, Gameniel Perez, whose initials are placed into the blankets central field. The blanket displays many design[s] common to blankets during the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s and one design characteristic to the 1970s. The blanket is well woven, likely by a member of the Ascate weaving family, which helped preserve the blanket. Based on these findings I suggest the blanket is 40 years old at the time of collection and purpose a date of manufacture of 1970 +/- 5 years." (Information abridged from the 2-volume manuscript "Age Analysis for the Christian Pettersen Collection of Huamachuco Blankets to the Smithsonian Institution", by Joseph Fabish, January 20, 2009. These volumes are housed at the National Anthropological Archives.)
label: Notes
content: There is fraying along the blanket's corners. Rat damage along selvage. There is no insect damage. There is no dye running. The blanket is negative to light test and demonstrates good weight. Purple/blue colored is faced. Vegetal dye of blue indigo. Textile repair is necessary. (Information abridged from the 2-volume manuscript "Age Analysis for the Christian Pettersen Collection of Huamachuco Blankets to the Smithsonian Institution", by Joseph Fabish, January 20, 2009. These volumes are housed at the National Anthropological Archives.)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 16 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: La Yeguada, La Libertad, Peru, South America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Quechua
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2047706
label: USNM Number
content: E432103-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Blanket
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 175 cm
label: Width
content: 146 cm