Navajo Classic Serape, c.1850

Item: UOR1141
Material: handspun wool
Size: 74 1/4" x 47 3/4"
Period: Historic
Origin: Navajo

This is a Navajo Classic Period serape woven in hand spun natural ivory, indigo dyed blue, and raveled lac and cochineal dyed red yarns sewn on to a stretched back canvas. The design features a vertical pattern of finely terraced concentric zig-zags enclosing two columns of graduated cross motifs, with zig-zag lines between, all on a red background. Provenance: The Fred Harvey Company, with lead inventory tag remaining reading: ST COLL (likely denoting the J.B. Staab Collection). The Lorimer Collection The Lorimer Collection of Southwestern Weavings was the culmination of two generations of enthusiastic collecting. George Horace Lorimer (1867-1937), editor-in-chief fo the Saturday Evening Post from 1899 to 1936, traveled extensively throughout the Southwest, sometimes buying textiles and other objects directly from the artists. Lorimer passed his appreciation for Southwest textiles on to his son, George Burford Lorimer (1908-1952), who continued to collect with his wife, Huldah Mingledorff-Lorimer (1912-1998).

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