Catalog Number
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Catalog Number |
CAS 2013-0003-0032 | |
| Category | Textiles | |
| Object Name | Rug | |
| Culture | Navajo | |
| Global Region | North America | |
| Country | USA | |
| State/Prov./Dist. | Arizona | |
| County | ||
| Other Geographic Data | Navajo Indian Reservation | |
| Maker's Name | Louise Bia | |
| Date of Manufacture | ca. 1990 | |
| Collection Name | Donaldson | |
| Materials | Warp: Single ply handspun natural wool; Weft: Single ply commercial wool; Aniline dyes | |
| Description | Rectangular rug woven entirely in plain weft-faced tapestry technique with non-interlocking joins; Pictorial design depicts a typical Navajo family scene, showing nine sheep grazing in the foreground, while a man leads his horse from the left In front of an unhitched wagon) toward a woman, seated in the center, who is preparing frybread over a campfire; Behind her is a hogan, and to the right of her is another woman and child and another woman seated in front of a rug on a loom; Two cows and two horses graze in the background, and in the more distant background are rust colored buttes against a blue sky with white clouds; A narrow red inner border and a wider black outer border frame the rug along all four edges; Rug does not have selvage cords; End cords are white. | |
| Dimensions (cm) | Width = 106.5, Length = 88.0 | |