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Moqui striped blanket
Date:	Circa 1875-1885

“Moqui comes from a Spanish name for Hopi Indians. The term is used for blankets with alternating black and blue stripes, even though no blankets with this pattern have been proven to be Hopi. This blanket, with some lazy lines, is likely Navajo or Zuni and not Hopi.” —Ann Hedlund

“This is a ‘plain Jane,’ but we all really like it. I call these little dashed lines ‘ribbons’—that’s what my grandmother used to call them in English. She got the idea from that lace with the looped edges that you could buy a long time ago. I don’t know what others call them. I learned how to weave using these. She’d make me do lines of these, alternating two colors, and then solid ones.” —Barbara Ornelas

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Weft-faced plain weave.

1.315 x 1.81 m; Tassels 00.070 m
71.26 x 51.772 in.; Tassels 2.756 in.

Catalog No. E-3264

Gift of Elizabeth Crozer Campbell, 1956; collected by donor’s father

Function	Fiber	Type	Ply-Spin-Twist			Color	Dye	Count *
Warp	Wool	Handspun	--	Z	--	White	None	8
Weft	Wool	Handspun	--	Z	--	Lt Orange-Red	Synthetic	20
Weft	Wool	Handspun	--	Z	--	White	None	25
Weft	Wool	Handspun	--	Z	--	Black	None Blk+Native	28
Weft	Wool	Handspun	--	Z	--	Blue	Indigo	30
Ecord	Wool	Handspun	3	z	S	Blue	Indigo	2
* threads/inch