Collecting the Weaver's Art: The William Claflin Collection of

Collecting the Weaver's Art: The William Claflin Collection of Southwestern Textiles (Peabody Museum Collections Series)
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This is the first publication on a remarkable collection of sixty-six outstanding Pueblo and Navajo textiles donated to the Peabody Museum in the 1980s by William Claflin, Jr., a prominent Boston businessman, avocational anthropologist, and patron of Southwestern archaeology. Claflin bequeathed to the museum not only these beautiful textiles, but also his detailed accounts of their collection histories--a rare record of the individuals who had owned or traded these weavings before they found a home in his private museum. Textile scholar Laurie Webster tells the stories of the weavings as they left their native Southwest and traveled eastward, passing through the hands of such owners and traders as a Ute Indian chief, a New England schoolteacher, a renowned artist, and various military officers and Indian agents. Her concise overview of Navajo and Pueblo weaving traditions is enhanced by the reflections of noted artist and Navajo textile expert Tony Berlant in his foreword to the text.

Country	USA
Brand	Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University Publications Department
Manufacturer	Peabody Museum Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	43 colour illustrations & 17 halftones
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9780873654005
ReleaseDate	2005-05-30

Collecting the Weaver's Art: The William Claflin Collection of Southwestern Textiles (Peabody Museum Collections Series)