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Rug

Collection Type

  • Textiles

Date

1900-1933

GUSN

GUSN-4246

Description

Rectangular shaped rug with red ends; brown saw tooth border; gray and brown field with zigzag thin brown diamonds in center with white fields and reversed swasticas in red.

Details

Descriptive Terms

rugs
dyeing
wool (textile)
lozenges
swastikas
Wool
Dyed
Swastica
Diamond
RUG

Pattern

Swastica

Associated Building

Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),

Maker

Navajo (Maker)

Location of Origin

USA, Southwest

Dimensions

34.5 (W) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler

Accession Number

1977.499

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