Rug

Diné (Navajo) people, Southwestern Region, Native American

1940 - 1960

  • Titles Rug (Descriptive)
  • Medium wool with aniline and vegetal dyes
  • Dimensions 60 x 43 in. (152.4 x 109.2 cm)
  • Credit Line Bequest of Coleman Cooper, Palm Beach, Florida, 1986.849
  • Work Type rug
  • Classification Rugs

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Awl, snow shoe. A round iron blade with a rounded edge, c. 7/32" diam. 2.5"long. fastened in a round handle with 6 grooves around it. 6.25" long. Used to cut round holes for thongs. Maggie said once it was used to cut grooves like those around the eyes in totems. Chief Kadonaha's.
Abstract composition in shades of brown, ivory, and green, has multiple rectangular forms juxtaposed with black linear outlines of a felled tree, a vessel, a canoe, a wheel, an animal head, and other forms.
Black and white photograph of four Native American women wearing jingle dress regalia and bandana face-coverings, Bear Medicine Lodge National Monument in background.