Navajo textiles

Description:

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: Catalogs,  Exhibitions,  Navajo textile fabrics,  Ethnological collections,  Navajo Indians,  Indians of North America,  Textile industry and fabrics,  Indian textile fabrics, north america,  Indians of north america, southwest, new,  Indian textile fabrics,  Ethnographic collections

People: William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951)