Blanket
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Washington Matthews
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Caroline Matthews
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Gray, blue, red, yellow: all vegetable dyes but the red; (Museum description and measurements the same). This specimen illustrated in Amsden, Navajo Weaving (1934) Plate 41. Amsden states "probably woven before 1890. Weft-faced textile of wool warp and weft. Fringe formed from knotted warps may indicate that this saddle blanket is of Zuni manufacture rather than Navajo. See Kate Peck Kent's "Spanish, Navajo, or Pueblo? A Guide to the Identification of Nineteenth-century Southwestern Textiles," in Hispanice Arts and Ethnohistory in the Southwest, M. Weigle, ed. Santa Fe: Ancient City Press, 1983. - Deborah Confer 9/1989." On exhibit NMNH Exhibit Hall 11, Case 14, 1955 - 1989. Exhibit label identified as saddle blanket.
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) (?)
label: Culture
content: Zuni (A:shiwi) (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 057003
label: USNM Number
content: E281482-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Saddle Blanket