Property of A SOUTHERN COLLECTOR
A NAVAJO LATE CLASSIC CHIEF'S WEARING BLANKET
Details
A NAVAJO LATE CLASSIC CHIEF'S WEARING BLANKET
Woven with an ivory ground with dark brown, blue and red dyed wool in a Second Phase pattern, composed of striped areas in similar colors alternating with areas of "hoof" track motifs at top, center and bottom, and blue tassels at corners
58 x 73 1/3in. (147.3 x 186.7cm.)
Woven with an ivory ground with dark brown, blue and red dyed wool in a Second Phase pattern, composed of striped areas in similar colors alternating with areas of "hoof" track motifs at top, center and bottom, and blue tassels at corners
58 x 73 1/3in. (147.3 x 186.7cm.)
Provenance
Collected by Colonel Thomas Ellwood Rose. Born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania March 12th, 1830. In January 1863 he became a colonel in the Union Army and fought at Liberty Gap and Chickamauga. He was taken prison at Chickamauga and imprisoned at Weldon, North Carolina. After the Civil War he was stationed at Camp Stanley in Green Lake, Texas in July 1865 and in October of the same year in Victoria, Texas. The consignor believes this blanket was collected while Rose was stationed in Texas. Colonel Rose is buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.