A Classic Chief's Blanket Variant, Ute Style, Navajo, circa 1840,
also known as the Spurs Variant.

A Classic Chief's Blanket Variant, Ute Style, Navajo, circa 1840, also known as the Spurs Variant.

The variant measures 53 inches long by 72 inches wide, as woven.

Chief’s blankets with combinations of horizontal rectangles, concentric squares, terraced diamonds, or other geometric designs are called either “chief’s blanket variants,” or just “variants.” This is a Ute Style variant, with no red stripes between
its design elements.

Chief’s blankets with combinations of horizontal rectangles, concentric squares, terraced diamonds, or other geometric designs are called either “chief’s blanket variants,” or just “variants.” This is a Ute Style variant, with no red stripes between its design elements.

Ex- Fred Harvey (1835-1901), Kansas City.

In the collection of the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art (NAMA), Kansas City;
by purchase from the Harvey family estate, 1933.

In the collection of the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art (NAMA), Kansas City; by purchase from the Harvey family estate, 1933.

Exhibited: Sacred Circles, NAMA, 1977. The variant is illustrated as Figure 617 in Coe, et alia, Sacred Circles,1977; the exhibition catalog.

The variant is illustrated as Figure 4, and as Plate 198, in Torrence, et alia, Continuum, 2020.

The red yarn is raveled bayeta piece-dyed with cochineal. All of the red yarns were raveled from the same bolt of red bayeta.

The blue yarns are handspun Churro fleece dyed in the yarn with indigo.

The brown yarns are un-dyed handspun Churro fleece, carded and spun from two brown fleeces.

The white yarns are un-dyed handspun Churro fleece.