Unknown North American
Pictorial Blanket with Horse's Heads and Birds

Pictorial Blanket with Horse's Heads and Birds

Public Domain

Pictorial Blanket with Horse's Heads and Birds
Artist
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
Not on view

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Department
Art of the Indigenous Americas
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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