Catalog Number
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Catalog Number |
CAS 2007-0001-0012 | |
| Category | Textiles | |
| Object Name | Rug | |
| Culture | Navajo and English | |
| Global Region | North America (Europe) | |
| Country | USA (England / Great Britain) | |
| State/Prov./Dist. | Arizona (England) | |
| County | ||
| Other Geographic Data | Navajo Indian Reservation area (Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire) | |
| Maker's Name | Margaret Shuffrey | |
| Date of Manufacture | 1999 | |
| Collection Name | N/A | |
| Materials | Warp: commercially cleaned and spun wool yarn, as used by Navajo weavers; Weft: Brown’s commercially cleaned, spun, and dyed wool yarn, as used by Navajo weavers; Twining and selvage cords: English commercial wool yarns | |
| Description | Ganado Red Navajo-style rug, woven entirely in tapestry weave; Central design is a single series of concentric terraced diamonds in red, white, black, and gray and containing a complex motif of smaller concentric terraced diamonds, all on deep red background; Remainder of design field is filled with motifs related to the center motif of small concentric terraced diamonds that form partial Valero stars; Rug is framed on all four sides with a gray and black border that is embellished with a continuous band of small black crosses; Red spirit line is located in upper right corner; Twining and selvage cords are woven of contrasting gray-green wool yarns; This rug design is copied and modified from a Ganado style rug woven in 1984 by Mae Jim for “Lost and Found Traditions†exhibit, and illustrated in catalog Lost and Found Traditions: Native American Art 1965-1985 (1986, New York, NY: The American Federation for the Arts, pp. 238-239), and also a Klagetoh-style rug woven by Stella Todacheeny, illustrated in Arizona Highways magazine (July 1974, p. 38, #WE-68), which won numerous awards in 1967 at the Arizona State Fair, the Heard Museum Fair, the Museum of Northern Arizona Navajo Show, the Gallup Inter-tribal Indian Ceremonial, and the Navajo Tribal Fair. | |
| Dimensions (cm) | Width = 82.5, Length = 109.2 | |