Navajo Weaving in the Late Twentieth Century—Kin, Community and Collectors [SOLD]

Navajo Weaving in the Late Twentieth Century-Kin, Community and Collectors

By Ann Lane Hedlund

Publisher: The University of Arizona Press, Tucson

First edition, hard cover with slip jacket, 2004.  147 pages, beautifully illustrated in color

Contents

The Collecting Enterprise

The Santa Fe Collectors

Navajo Weaving 1971-1996

The Santa Fe Collection

Introduction

Sheep Colors; Two Grey Hills and Burnham

Plant Colors: Crystal, Wide Ruins, and Burntwater

A Preference for Reds: Ganado, Klagetoh, and Pinon

Looking Back: Chief-Style Blankets and Revivals

Looking to the East: Teec Nos Pos

Storm Patterns

Scenes from Ceremonies: Ye’ii, Ye’iibicheii, and Sandpaintings

Looking Around: Pictorials

Small Rugs

Samplers

From the Jacket

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 used those tools to weave a web of beauty-a rich tradition that continues to the present day.

In testimony to this living art form, this book presents 74 dazzling color plates of Navajo rugs and wall hangings woven between 1971 and 1996. Drawn from a private southwestern collection, they represent the work of sixty of the finest native weavers in the American Southwest. The creations depicted here reflect a number of styles-revival, sand-painting, pictorial, miniature, sampler-and a number of major regional variations, from Ganado to Teec Nos Pos.

Textile authority Ann Hedlund provides an introductory narrative about the development of Navajo textile collecting-including the shift of attention from artifacts to art-and a brief review of the history of Navajo weaving. She then comments on the shaping of the particular collection represented in the book, offering a rich source of knowledge and insight for other collectors.