Unknown Diné (Navajo)

Native American

Rug
1940

Wool and cotton
58 x 40.5 in.
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Frye
1984.1381

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This object has the following keywords:

• Navajo - The style and culture of a populous North American Indian group who live primarily in New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah, speaking an Apachean language which is classified in the Athabaskan language family. At some point in prehistory, the Navajo and Apache migrated to the Southwest from Canada, where most other Athabaskan-speaking peoples still live; although the exact timing of the relocation is unknown, it is thought to have been between 1100 and 1500 CE. These early Navajo were mobile hunters and gatherers; after moving to the Southwest, however, they adopted many of the practices of the sedentary, farming Pueblo Indians near whom they settled.
• Navajo rugs - Sources:
  - Work cat.: Patterns and sources of Navajo weaving, c1977.
  - Lowell, S. Navajo rug designs, c2005.
  - Rodee, M.E. One hundred years of Navajo rugs, c1995.
• textiles - General term for carpets, fabrics, costume, or other works made of textile materials, which are natural or synthetic fibers created by weaving, felting, knotting, twining, or otherwise processing. For works of art or high craft that employ textile as a medium, prefer "textile art (visual works)."
• triangles
• zigzags - Lines or bands composed of a series of chevrons.

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

• Common Threads: History of Fiber Arts , 9/6/2016 - 12/10/2016