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#14 Classic Navajo Child's Blanket
Navajo Child's Blankets- ARTIST
- Navajo Child's Blankets
- YEAR
- 1865
- MEDIUM
- Navajo Weaving
- DIMENSIONS
- 47" x 30"
- STATUS
- Available
This is a great example of the bold spider woman outlined cross design that comes into prominence during the heyday of the classic child’s blanket and persisted long after. Late classic and transitional specimens are not uncommon but pure classic pieces are rare and highly sought after. Woven on a field of various cochineal bayeta yarns, this was a piece of contemporary art to the Navajo in the late 1860s. The blanket measures 47” x 30” with various dye lots of cochineal-dyed bayeta, golden tan vegetal-dyed saxony, indigo blue, and handspun white.