Description:
This black manta, woven from black yarn likely dyed from aniline dyes (appearing in the 1880s) or from sunflowers, has a red cloth border. Woven by Hopi men for wear by other Puebloan (Hopi, Acoma, Zuni, and Laguna) women as a skirt or dress during marriage, special events, and to be buried in, dark or "black" mantas were popular beginning in the 1850s. Hopi men wove plain black mantas which were then traded to other local Native communities, where their edges or borders were then decorated with (mainly red) embroidery according to individual taste or tribal style. The practice of decorating dark mantas with red cloth or yarn ended in the mid to late 1900s. AP2018
Label Text:
This woman's shawl would be held together with a manta pin.
Subjects:
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