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Woven by the grandmothers : nineteenth-century Navajo textiles from the National Museum of the American Indian / edited by Eulalie H. Bonar.
Contributor(s): Bonar, Eulalie H
| National Museum of the American Indian
Language: English Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996.Description: xvi, 214p. : ill., 42 col. plates ; 26cm.ISBN: 1560987286
Contents:
Foreword / W. Richard West, jr.; Introduction / E.H. Bonar; My story / D.Y. Begay; A conversation with my father / D.Y. Begay; The Navajo concept of art / Harry Walters; Personification of Navajo weaving / Wesley Thomas; The blanket story / Kalley Keams; "More of survival than an art": comparing late 19th and late 20th century lifeways and weaving / A. Lane Hedlund; Navajo blankets / Jo Ben Wheat.
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Class number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations |
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British Museum | Africa Oceania and the Americas | Open Shelves | H55 [NAT-] (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | M31196 |
Total reservations: 0
Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, October 6, 1996 to January 8, 1997.
Bibliographical references: p.204-209.
Foreword / W. Richard West, jr.; Introduction / E.H. Bonar; My story / D.Y. Begay; A conversation with my father / D.Y. Begay; The Navajo concept of art / Harry Walters; Personification of Navajo weaving / Wesley Thomas; The blanket story / Kalley Keams; "More of survival than an art": comparing late 19th and late 20th century lifeways and weaving / A. Lane Hedlund; Navajo blankets / Jo Ben Wheat.
In English and Navajo.
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