Indian Blankets and Their Makers

  • Hardcover
  • Chicago: A.C. McClurg and Co, 1934
By James, George Wharton
Chicago: A.C. McClurg and Co, 1934. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good. 213pp. Small quarto [26 cm] Tan cloth over boards with pictorial stamping. Light rubbing and soiling to the extremities. Very trivial moisture staining to top edge of text block. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. A few pages with darkened areas from paper having been laid in. With numerous illustrations and colored plates.

From the Introduction- "Hence it will be seen that Navaho blanket-weaving is not 'a lost art,' nor are the weavers a vanishing race. In these pages I shall show, and with a thousand blankets selected from those made this year it can be demonstrated, that as good blankets are being woven today by the Navahos as were ever fashioned in their history...

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