Small Striped Woolen Blanket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Dec 1872
name: label: Collector
content: Major John W. Powell
label: Donor Name
content: Major John W. Powell
notes: label: Notes
content: BLANKET IDENTIFIED AS LATE CLASSIC NAVAJO SARAPE BY DR. JOE BEN WHEAT, 1982. RESULTS OF 1982 DYE ANALYSIS BY DR. DAVID WENGER, UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, BOULDER: 3-PLY RED YARN - COCHINEAL DYE. Information from "Textiles of the American Southwest" webpage entry on this artifact: Blanket. Collected by John Wesley Powell at Zuni, New Mexico, ca. 1872. Dimensions: 48 in. (warp) x 32 in. (weft). Technique: Plain tapestry weave. Thread count: Warp = 10/in.; Warp = 32/in. (handspun), 40/in. (3-ply). Fibers: Warp = 1-ply handspun wool yarn, natural dark brown, Z-spin. Weft = 1-ply handspun wool yarn, natural brown, Z-spin; 3-ply commercial wool yarn, synthetic-dyed yellow and green, and cochineal-dyed red, Z-spin, S-twist. Selvage = end selvages are 2-cord, 3-ply handspun wool yarn, indigo-dyed blue, Z-spin, S-twist; side selvages are 2-cord, 3-ply commercial wool yarn, synthetic-dyed red and green, S-spin, Z-twist. Corners = selvage ends (top and bottom) are knotted separately and augmented with large tassels of synthetic-dyed yellow, red, and green 3-ply commercial wool yarn. Design: End and center zones have three red stripes with green centers separated by yellow stripes. Outer mid-center zones have yellow stripes with narrow red centers separated by green stripes. The outer mid-center zone has yellow with green center separated by red stripe. The inner mid-center zone has a central red stripe with yellow center separated by green stripes from parallel yellow stripes with red centers. All zones are separated by solid brown stripes.
label: Notes
content: Illus. and described/analyzed Pl. 149, p. 298 in Wheat, Joe Ben, and Ann Lane Hedlund. 2003. Blanket weaving in the Southwest. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. Identified there as a Navajo Diyugi.
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/121 . Identified there as a Navajo blanket.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 17 Aug 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: New Mexico, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Zuni (A:shiwi)
label: Culture
content: Navajo (Diné)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 002357
label: USNM Number
content: E11162-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Blanket