Indian Blankets and Their Makers
- Hardcover
- Chicago: A.C. McClurg and Co, 1934
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...
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...