Patterns of Exchange
Subtitle: Navajo Weavers and Traders
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: May 30, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780806137575
Subjects: Customs & Traditions; Rugs; Social Science; Crafts / Hobbies; Sociology
Description: The Navajo rugs and textiles people admire and buy today are the result of many historical influences, particularly the interaction between Navajo weavers and the traders who guided their production and controlled their sale. John Lorenzo Hubbell and other late-nineteenth-century traders were convinced they knew which patterns and colors would appeal to Anglo-American buyers, and so they heavily encouraged those designs. In Patterns of Exchange, Teresa J. Wilkins traces how the relationships between generations of Navajo weavers and traders affected Navajo weaving.