Navajo Saddle Blankets: Textiles to Ride in the American West - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0890134073 ISBN 13: 9780890134078

Publisher: Museum of New Mexico Press, 2002

Synopsis

Navajo saddle blankets are among the most under-appreciated 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 this title

About the Author

Lane Coulter has an MFA in metalsmithing and is jewellery instructor at the Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe. He is also the author of Navajo Saddle Blankets. Maurice Dixon Jr is a Santa Fe studio artist. Ward Alan Minge received his PhD in history from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.

Edition details

• Publisher: Museum of New Mexico Press
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0890134073
• ISBN 13: 9780890134078
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144
• Editor: Coulter PhD Lane