Item #70295 Indian Blankets and Their Makers. George Wharton James.

Indian Blankets and Their Makers

Chicago: A.C. McClurg and Co., 1934. Reprint. Hardcover. 213pp. Small quarto [26 cm] Tan cloth over boards with pictorial stamping. Light rubbing and soiling to the extremities. Very trivial moisture staining to top edge of text block. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. A few pages with darkened areas from paper having been laid in. Very Good. Item #70295

With numerous illustrations and colored plates.

From the Introduction- "Hence it will be seen that Navaho blanket-weaving is not 'a lost art,' nor are the weavers a vanishing race. In these pages I shall show, and with a thousand blankets selected from those made this year it can be demonstrated, that as good blankets are being woven today by the Navahos as were ever fashioned in their history..."

Price: $50.00

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