Navajo Saddle Blankets: Textiles to Ride in the American Southwest: Textiles to Ride in the American Southwest

ISBN 10: 0890134073 / ISBN 13: 9780890134078

Published by Museum of New Mexico Press, 2004

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Navajo Saddle Blankets: Textiles to Ride in the American Southwest: Textiles to Ride in the American Southwest
• Publisher: Museum of New Mexico Press
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0890134073
• ISBN 13: 9780890134078
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Lane Coulter has taught art and design for more than twenty-five years and has organized exhibitions and lectured widely on American Indian jewelry and textiles and the Hispanic arts of New Mexico.