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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.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Book Book British Museum Africa Oceania and the Americas Open Shelves H55 [NAT-] (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available M31196
Total holds: 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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