Research Catalog

Title

Weaving a world : textiles and the Navajo way of seeing / Roseann Sandoval Willink and Paul G. Zolbrod ; photographs by John Vavruska.

Author

Willink, Roseann Sandoval.

Publication

Santa Fe : University of New Mexico Press, ©1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

Zolbrod, Paul G.

Description

xvi, 96, [18] pages : illustrations (some color), color map; 26 cm

Summary

The authors focus on some 70 examples of textiles from the celebrated collection of the Laboratory of Anthropology in Santa Fe, NM, exploring them from the perspective of the weavers themselves and discovering the process and intention that contributed to their creation.

Alternative Title

Textiles and the Navajo way of seeing

Subject

• Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology (Museum of New Mexico) > Catalogs
• Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology (Museum of New Mexico)
• Navajo textile fabrics > Catalogs
• Navajo mythology > Catalogs
• Navajo philosophy > Catalogs
• Navajo mythology
• Navajo philosophy
• Navajo textile fabrics
• Textilkunst
• Weltanschauung
• Navajo

Genre/Form

• catalogs (documents)
• Catalogs.
• Catalogues.

Note

• Errata slip inserted.

Contents

Preface / Listen to the Rugs The Poetics of Navajo Weaving -- I. The Mythic Memory / Earth, Sky, and the Holy People -- II. The Collective Memory / Exile, Return, and the Outside World -- III. Ceremonial Practice / Summoning the Holy People -- VI. Harmony and Disharmony / Keeping the World in Balance -- V. A World in Motion / Living in a Dynamic Landscape -- Collections Credits

ISBN

• 0890133077
• 9780890133071

LCCN

96033154

OCLC

• ocm35128225
• 35128225
• SCSB-359202

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library