Rug

Diné (Navajo) people, Southwestern Region, Native American

  • Titles Rug (Descriptive)
  • Medium handspun wool
  • Dimensions 59 x 36 in. (149.9 x 91.4 cm)
  • Credit Line Bequest of Coleman Cooper, Palm Beach, Florida, 1986.873
  • Work Type rug
  • Classification Rugs

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Chief's Blanket (First Phase style), Diné (Navajo) people, Southwestern Region, Native American, wool with cochineal and vegetal dyes
Rattle in shape of a raven, carrying on its back a reclining figure with bent knees and extended tongue; human figure is joined by his tongue to a frog, which is held in the beak of a kingfisher bird, whose head is depicted (without a body) and located closest to the handle of the rattle. The underside of the rattle (the raven's belly) has the abstracted features of a human face.
Beaded bag of black cloth, with triangular shaped flap folded over opening, and shoulder sash backed with pink silk. Organic decorative motifs on bag in pink, white, and green beads; sash decorated with repeating spiral and line motif in green, white, and pink beads. Sash trimmed in yellow silk, with silk rosettes at forked end of sash. Yarn tassels attached to bottom of bag.
Abstracted pyramidal shaped figure of seated woman with head and body wrapped in blanket, holding a pot