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Wearing Blanket

Date: c. 1870
Medium: Wool, commercial and homespun yarns
Dimensions: 76 x 52 1/2 in. 193.0 x 133.4 cm
Department: Africa, Oceania & Indigenous Americas
Classification: Textile
Credit: Gift of the Descendents of Helen Weeks Winchester and Captain Harrison Samual Weeks
Accession No.: 1987.93
Provenance: Collected by Harrison Samual Weeks, Captain, U.S. Army, in 1876 while stationed at Fort Union, New Mexico. Bequeathed to his daughter, Helen Weeks Winchester Bequeathed to her children, although in the possession of Henry T. Winchester, Jr., of Allegan, Michigan
Keywords: cloth, textile, wool, blanket, clothing

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