Rug (Wide Ruins style)

Native American, Diné (Navajo) people, Southwestern Region

About 1918

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Four spruce root lugs, one broken. Canvas patch. Circular spruce root patch made like the bottom of a basket. Alternate plaiting and twining weave. No colors.
Rug (Eastern Reservation style), Diné (Navajo) people, Southwestern Region, Native American, wool with aniline and vegetal dyes
Ear drop; silver with engraved design. A drop suggestive in shape of a Japanese lantern, fastened to a loop
Horizontal painting with procession of walkers, only lower half of legs shown; abstracted patterns typical of parfleche paintings form walking path beneath their feet.