Navajo Textiles: The Crane Collection at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science

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Navajo Textiles provides a nuanced account the Navajo weavings in the Crane Collection on the Denver Museum of Nature & Science—one of the crucial largest collections of Navajo textiles on this planet. Bringing together the work of anthropologists and indigenous artists, the book explores the Navajo rug trade in the mid-nineteenth century and changes in the Navajo textile market whilst highlighting the museum’s essential, though still quite unknown, choice of Navajo textiles.

In this unique collaboration among anthropologists, museums, and Navajo weavers, the authors provide a narrative of the acquisition of the Crane Collection and a history of Navajo weaving. Personal reflections and insights from foremost Navajo weavers D. Y. Begay and Lynda Teller Pete are also featured, and a couple of hundred stunning full-color photographs of the textiles in the collection are accompanied by technical details about the materials and techniques used in their creation. An introduction by Ann Lane Hedlund documents the growing collaboration between Navajo weavers and museums in Navajo textile research. 

The legacy of Navajo weaving is complex and intertwined with the history of the Diné themselves. Navajo Textiles makes the history and practice of Navajo weaving accessible to an audience of scholars and laypeople both within and out of doors the Diné community.

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