Rug (Wide Ruins style)

Native American, Diné (Navajo) people, Southwestern Region

About 1918

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Black and white photograph of four Native American women wearing jingle dress regalia, holding hands and gazing upward at towering trees
Full-sized Kiowa cradle; buffalo hide beaded in a background of turquoise with stylized floral and triangle designs in colors of red, white, dark green, cobalt, and greasy yellow. Inside of cradle lined in mattress ticking. Separate hide pieces attached at the top of cradle and beaded with two diamond designs of the same colors as the cradle is tacked down to the boards with red painted round brass buttons and hide dangles with metal cones. Cradle is attached to thick boards with upper half painted in blue, red, and yellow and brass tacks following the color designs.
Vertical woven paper basket with round mouth and square bottom, in Cherokee water pattern; paper dyed shades of blue, lavender, and black. Photograph of Tuckasegee River in central band; text written on paper weaving strips drawn from David Archimbault's speech to United Nations in response to Dakota Access Pipeline on Standing Rock Sioux Reservation.
Ceramic--creamy orange slip, painted over with black and orange--hatched panel of hooked wings between parallel bars