Rug
Diné (Navajo)
Southwest
1880-1900
Wool with Aniline dye
Overall: 63 × 47 1/4 in. (160 × 120 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Frank C. and Clara G. Churchill
46.17.10754
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Furnishings: Floor Covering
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Southwest
Not on view
Course History
NAS 10, ANTH 4, Peoples and Cultures of Native North America, Sergei Kan, Spring 2012
NAS 10, ANTH 4, Peoples and Cultures of Native North America, Sergei Kan, Winter 2013
NAS 10, ANTH 4, Peoples and Cultures of Native North America, Sergei Kan, Winter 2015
NAS 10, ANTH 4, Peoples and Cultures of Native North America, Sergei Kan, Winter 2015
SART 27, SART 28, Printmaking I and II, Tricia Treacy, Fall 2020
Exhibition History
Visual Proof: The Experience of Mathematics in Art, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 11-December 12, 1999.
Publication History
Pippa Helen Drew, "Symmetry in Navajo Weaving." In D. I. Wallace, editor, Visual Proof: The Experience of Mathematics in Art, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1999, pp. 24-31, ill. cover and p. 24, listed p. 61, Cat. no. 6.
Provenance
Clara G. Corser Turner Churchill (1851-1945) and Frank Carroll Churchill (1850-1912), Southwestern United States, 1903-1907; bequeathed to present collection, 1946.
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