Serape, Blanket - 76-23-1 | Collections

Native Name	Diyogi
Object Number:	76-23-1
Current Location:	Collections Storage
Culture:	Navajo
Provenience:	Arizona Navajo Reservation
Culture Area:	Southwest Culture Area
Date Made:	ca. 1850
Early Date:	1825
Late Date:	1875
Section:	American
Materials:	Wool Dye Cochineal Dye
Technique:	Handspun Woven Dyed
Length:	176.5 cm
Width:	145 cm
Credit Line:	Gift of Theodore and Deborah Newbold, 1976
Other Number:	L-553-1 - Old Loan Number

Description

Poncho serape. Classic design of terraced concentric triangles, diamonds and zigzags arranged in an all-over integrated composition in crimson, blue and white. Warp: handspun wool - white. Weft: handspun wool - white, indigo - dyed blue; raveled worsted bayeta - crimson, lac and cochineal dye.

Current & Past Exhibitions:

Living in Balance: The Universe of the Hopi, Zuni, Navajo, and Apache (20 May 1995 - 2013)

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Bibliography:

[Book] Wheat, Joe B. 1984. The Gift of Spiderwoman. Southwestern Textiles. The Navajo Tradition.. The University Museum. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: 33	View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Catalogue, Collection] Williams, Lucy F. 2003. Guide to the North American Ethnographic Collection at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 55, pl. 54	View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Book] Berlant, Anthony, and Kahlenberg, Mary H. 1972. The Navajo Blanket.. Praeger Publishers. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 19, fig. 42	View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Book] Quick, Jennifer. 2004. Magnificent Objects from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. ed. 1st. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 41, fig. 34	View Objects related to this Actual Citation