id: 97991 accession number: 1917.62 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1917.62 updated: 2022-01-04 14:42:23.220000 Hubbell Revival-style Rug with Moki (Moqui) Stripes, c. 1890-1910. America, Native North American, Southwest, Navajo, Post-Contact, Early Period. Tapestry weave: wool (Germantown); overall: 194.8 x 138.4 cm (76 11/16 x 54 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. L. E. Holden 1917.62 title: Hubbell Revival-style Rug with Moki (Moqui) Stripes title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1890-1910 creation date earliest: 1890 creation date latest: 1910 current location: creditline: Gift of Mrs. L. E. Holden copyright: --- culture: America, Native North American, Southwest, Navajo, Post-Contact, Early Period technique: tapestry weave: wool (Germantown) department: Textiles collection: T - Native North American type: Textile find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 194.8 x 138.4 cm (76 11/16 x 54 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Native North American Gallery 108 Rotation opening date: 2004-07-09T04:00:00 Native North American Gallery 108 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 9, 2004-May 26, 2005). title: The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2006-06-09T00:00:00 The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, OH (June 9-August 20, 2006). title: Gallery 231- Native North American Textile Rotation opening date: 2017-08-21T04:00:00 Gallery 231- Native North American Textile Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 21, 2017-August 27, 2018). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Native North American textile rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 9, 2004-May 26, 2005). --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Navajo blankets are splendid microcosms of the Southwest’s cultural richness. This example has two old Navajo designs: the terraced diamond and the striped moki pattern. Moki’s origin is unclear. It may have come from Pueblo peoples, from whom the Navajo learned weaving after migrating to the Southwest from Canada. Or it could have come from the Spaniards, who arrived in the Southwest in 1540, not long after the Navajo. Though the patterns are old, the blanket was created around 1900 when Navajo weavers began to innovate for the Anglo market, and wearing-blankets, which were worn around the shoulders, became rugs sold to outsiders. In Navajo legend, weaving is connected to the mythic Spider-Woman, who on her loom wove the universe from cosmic materials. Weaving, then, is an activity charged with meaning. The Navajo place emphasis not so much on the final product but on the process, which they regard as a means of creating beauty and projecting it onto the world. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS "Accessions." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 4, no. 4 (1917): 64-67. page number: Mentioned: p. 64 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136092 Sims, Lowery Stokes. The persistence of geometry: form, content, and culture in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2006. page number: p. 88 & 118, No. 62 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.62/1917.62_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.62/1917.62_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.62/1917.62_full.tif