Pictorial Blanket with Horse's Heads and Birds

CultureDiné (Navajo)
Titles
  • Pictorial Blanket with Horse's Heads and Birds
Date1935–1945
PlaceChinle, Northeastern Arizona, United States
MediumWool and vegetal dyes
Dimensions120 × 72 in. (304.8 × 182.9 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Shell Oil Company Foundation in honor of Philip Carroll at "One Great Night in November, 1998"
Object number98.598
Non exposé

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Object Type
ProvenanceThe Boeckman Ranch Collection, Texas; purchased by [Dewey Galleries, Santa Fe, by 1998]; purchased by MFAH, 1998.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
The blanket is unsigned.

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Homespun wool, and vegetable dyes
63.195
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1840
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scan from file photograph
c. 1835–1855
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John Redick
1852
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Jacob W. Bohn
1846
Cotton and wool, Jacquard-loom-woven
B.76.37
Textile
c. 19th century
Cashmere wool, and possibly silk
33.7
Child's Blanket with Diamonds
1890–1900
Wool
98.116
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1100–1532 AD
Wool, gold, pearls, and cotton thread
2001.1183
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100 BC–300 AD
Camelid wool yarns and natural dyes
2016.59
Wholecloth Quilt
c. 1760–1800
Wool
B.76.69
Hat
1900–1950 AD
Wool
2011.1039
Disk Pectoral with Birds
late 19th–early 20th century
Sheet gold
2004.2299