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Serape


Blanket
Native American, Diné [Navajo]
1860-1866
Object Place: New Mexico, United States, Southwest

Medium/Technique Wool plain weave
Dimensions Overall: 149.9 × 111.8 cm (59 × 44 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Harold D. Walker and Miss Eleanor W. Brooks, in memory of their mother, Mrs. N. B. K. Brooks
Accession Number52.1368
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsTextiles

DescriptionSarape or wearing blanket with bands in red, white, blue and yellow; pink tassle on each corner. Handspun indigo and white yarns, 3-ply pink, red, and pale yellow/green wefts.
ProvenanceBetween about 1866 and 1870, acquired in New Mexico by Adelaide Ludlam Waters (b. 1842), Philadelphia [see note]; to her daughter, Maude Waters (Mrs. Napoleon Bonaparte Kneass) Brooks (b. 1869 - d. 1944), Philadelphia and Brookline, MA; to her daughters, Barbara Brooks (Mrs. Harold D.) Walker (b. 1903 - d. 1978) and Eleanor W. Brooks (b. 1897 - d. 1972); 1952, gift of Barbara Brooks Walker and Eleanor W. Brooks to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 11, 1952)

NOTE: In 1866, Adelaide Ludlum married John Waters at Fort Wingate, NM, where they lived until 1870.