Author: JAMES, H. L
Title: Posts and Rugs the Story of Navajo Rugs and Their Homes
Description: Globe, Arizona: Southwest Parks and Monuments Association, 1976. First Edition. Second Printing; Soft Cover. ISBN: 0911408339. Popular series - Southwest Parks and Monuments Association ; no. 15 Series; Maps & Color & B/W illustrations; 9 x 12; X,126 pages; Soft cover has light shelf wear, rubbing/scuffing and bumping. Grey spine with red lettering. Pages are clean and tight, appears as if unused. Illustrated with 10 maps, 3 charts, dozens of color and B/W illustrations of materials and clothing." ...started out in the author's mind as a more or less conventional analysis of weaving skills, and regional variations in the craft, but the story wouldn't gell [sic] that way! It wasn't just Navajor rugs, but the home environment which created them. This meant the homes, the people and the whole warp and weft of history on the Reservation as these once nomadic people settled into a pastoral way which favored craft development". Appendices; notes; bibliography; index. Oversized, 4#.. Very Good+ .

Keywords: 0911408339 Textile Art; Textile History; Native American History; Native American Arts; Navaho Language; Weaving; Weaving Designs; Fabrics; Patterns; Native American History Cultural History Education American History Art Furniture/Interiors/Decorating An