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Navajo saddle blankets : textiles to ride in the American West
- Title
- Navajo saddle blankets : textiles to ride in the American West / edited by Lane Coulter ; featuring the collection of the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture.
- Publication
- Santa Fe : Museum of New Mexico Press, ©2002.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | E99.N3 N357 2002 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 144 pages : illustrations (some color); 28 cm
- Summary
- Navajo saddle blankets are among the most underappreciated art forms in the American Southwest, the Cinderella of Navajo textiles. Saddle blankets have played a key role in Navajo life both as utilitarian objects and as a force in the economic sustainability of modern Navajo life. They represent a material link between Navajo weavers and traders. This modest textile has found a context in the cattle industry, inside rural cabins, on the floors of eastern bungalows, on the walls of art museums, and even on horseback. It has served countless cultural and utilitarian demands placed on it over the last century and a half, with no sunset in sight.
- 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
- Horse blankets > West (U.S.) > Catalogs
- Horse blankets
- Navajo textile fabrics
- West United States
- Genre/Form
- catalogs (documents)
- Catalogs
- Catalogs.
- Catalogues.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Foreword / Duane Anderson -- Preface / Pearl Sunrise -- Introduction / Lane Coulter -- First contact / Bruce Shackleford -- Early Navajo weaving: 1650-1868 and beyond / Lane Coulter -- Looking backward, looking forward: the transitional fulcrum, 1868-1910 / Susan Brown McGreevy -- Twentieth-century saddle blankets / Marian E. Rodee -- Saddle blanket analysis / Casey Reed -- Cowboy market for Navajo saddle blankets / B. Byron Price -- Weaving processes and techniques / Joyce Begay-Foss -- Epilogue / Lane Coulter.
- ISBN
- 0890134065
- 9780890134061
- 0890134073
- 9780890134078
- LCCN
- 2002069637
- OCLC
- ocm49649576
- 49649576
- SCSB-1260730
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library