Displaying 1 of 1 1988 Format: Book Author: Blomberg, Nancy J., 1946-2018. Title: Navajo textiles : the William Randolph Hearst Collection / Nancy J. Blomberg. Publisher, Date: Tucson, AZ : University of Arizona Press, ©1988. Description: xii, 257 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm Summary: William Randolph Hearst's collection of Navajo textiles is one of the most complete gatherings of nineteenth-century Navajo weaving in the world. Comprising dozens of Classic Period serapes, chief blankets, Germantown eyedazzlers, and turn-of-the-century rugs, the 185-piece collection was donated to the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History in 1942 but for the next forty years was known only to a handful of scholars. Subjects: Hearst, William Randolph, 1863-1951 -- Ethnological collections -- Catalogs. Navajo textile fabrics -- Catalogs. Indian textile fabrics -- Southwest, New -- Catalogs. Genre: Catalogs. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-253) and index. Book review by Susan Brown McGreevy, in American Indian art magazine, 0192-9968, Vol. 14, no. 3 (summer 1989), p. 76-77, 79 Contents: From blanket to rug: the historical development of Navajo textiles -- From consumer to weaver: the marketing of Navajo textiles -- From collector to curator: the catalogue -- Appendix: Economic history of the Hearst Collection. LCCN: 88004794 ISBN: 0816510784 9780816510788 0816510784 (alk. paper) Other Number: 17649560 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 8100 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: 746.14 Blomberg Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
