Woven by the Grandmothers: Nineteenth-century Navajo textiles from the National Museum of the American Indian

by Eulalie H. Bonar

Showcasing one of the largest collections of Native American textiles in the world, this book combines essays by both weavers and scholars with full-color illustrations of the textiles themselves to situate the weavings within a long and ongoing artistic and functional tradition. Published with the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian.

Genres: Indigenous

214 pages, Paperback

First published October 17, 1996

Reviews

[Ethan Miller · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good mix of traditional material and textile scholarship with oral and personal histories for perspective