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One panel of woman's two-piece dress

Native American, Diné [Navajo]
1850–70
Object Place: Southwest, North America

Medium/Technique Wool tapestry weave with interlock joins
Dimensions Overall: 130.8 x 96.5 cm (51 1/2 x 38 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number00.676
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsTextiles

DescriptionBlack ground, on ends a wide band of red with dentated edges; on these are rows of diamonds outlined by blue blocks and with blue and light green lines in the centers; narrower bands of red and blue.
ProvenanceSold by Jane Lathrop Loring (Mrs. Asa) Gray (b. 1821 - d. 1909), Cambridge, MA, to Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853 - d. 1935), Cambridge; 1900, gift of Denman Waldo Ross to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 10, 1900)