Unknown Maker| American Indian| Navajo| Unknown Locale
Description
This is a second-phase chief-style women's wearing blanket, c. 1875-1880. The blanket has a background of thin natural white and aniline black band panels running along the horizontal (long dimension) plane. Its design elements are made up of aniline red, aniline blue, and aniline black band panels running along the horizontal plane, combined with twelve aniline blue, aniline red, and aniline maize terraced squares lying on top of the panel elements. One special feature on this blanket is that contained within one of the central terraced squares is a spirit trap. The background is divided up into two separate panels. Panel one (identified as top of blanket by a sewn on white fabric identification tag) contains fourteen full horizontal length black bands, and thirteen full horizontal length white bands, two horizontal divided three panel black bands, and three horizontal divided three panel white bands. Panel two contains eleven full horizontal length black bands, ten full horizontal length white bands, two horizontal divided three panel black bands, and three horizontal divided three panel white bands. The Design Elements: There are three separate band panels on the rug, one on each edge and one in the center. The bands contain the colors aniline red, aniline brown, and indigo blue. Full horizontal length natural tan and brown bands fill in the background between the decorative panels. The edge panels design elements are, from edge inward, a wide blue band, a thin red band, a medium brown bans, a thin red band, a wide...
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