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Blanket Weaving in the Southwest
Language: en
Pages: 480
Authors: Joe Ben Wheat
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-10 - Publisher: University of Arizona Press

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A history and description of southwestern textiles along with a catalog of Pueblo, Navajo, Mexican, and Spanish American blankets, ponchos, and sarapes.
Blanket Weaving in the Southwest
Language: en
Pages: 473
Authors: Joe Ben Wheat
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-06-21 - Publisher: University of Arizona Press

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Exquisite blankets, sarapes and ponchos handwoven by southwestern peoples are admired throughout the world. Despite many popularized accounts, serious gaps have
Swept Under the Rug
Language: en
Pages: 340
Authors: Kathy M'Closkey
Categories: Antiques & Collectibles
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: UNM Press

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Debunks the romanticist stereotyping of Navajo weavers and Reservation traders and situates weavers within the economic history of the southwest.
Navajo Weaving in the Late Twentieth Century
Language: en
Pages: 172
Authors: Ann Lane Hedlund
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-10 - Publisher: University of Arizona Press

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According to the Navajos, the holy people Spider Man and Spider Woman first brought the tools for weaving to the People. Over the centuries Navajo artists have
Navaho Weaving
Language: en
Pages: 434
Authors: Charles Avery Amsden
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-01-17 - Publisher: Courier Corporation

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First in-depth study of the technical aspects of Navaho weaving, plus history of the loom and its prototypes in the prehistoric Southwest, analysis and descript