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Eye dazzler style rug

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Title	Eye dazzler style rug
Description	Rug, col. (natural/vegetable dyes) ; 62 x 36 cm. Woven by Imogene McDonald. This weaving may be an eye dazzler style rug, woven in the area near Ganado or Wide Ruins, in eastern Arizona. The eye dazzler styles are elaborate weavings of any combination of colors. Eye dazzler is one of the earliest Navajo weaving styles influenced by colorful serape blankets worn in New Mexico in the 1870s. Usually, the design is a simple geometric shape chevron, diamond, serrate or triangle repeated through the entire textile. Donated by Iver Nelson; purchased 1977 from Covered Wagon, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Subject	Navajo rugs--New Mexico.
Date	[1977]
Format	JPEG
Rights	Image © Giertz Krannert Art Museum Giertz Education Center.