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Eastern design; worsted wool hooked rug in brown, red and blue; central rectangular medallion with cross design in red, outlined in dark brown on a light brown field; surrounded by brown and blue inner border with secondary wide border squares interconnected in an X pattern with each square enclosing a swastika; red and brown on blue field.
rugs
burlap
wool (textile)
yarn
swastikas
Wool
Yarn
Burlap
Swastica
RUG
Swastica
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Unknown
29.5 x 49.75 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.798
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