Navajo Pictorial Blanket - ca. 1920-30

woven in handspun wool, in natural ivory and light and dark brown, with a bi-plane enclosed by a checkered border. 58 in. by 33 in. Exhibited Saint Louis Art Museum: “Navajo Weavings from the Andy Williams Collection,” October 26, 1997 – January 4, 1998 Literature Ann Lane Hedlund, Navajo Weavings from the Andy Williams Collection, 1997, p. 74, no. 41 For a discussion of the pictorial tradition in Navajo weaving see Campbell and Kopp, 1991, p. 56: "The automobile and the pickup truck made their way to the reservation in the 1920s and 1930s, and not surprisingly, these images began to appear in Navajo rugs during that period. Even the airplane with all its evolutions - the biplane, the trimotor, and eventually, in contemporary work, the jet plane and helicopters - were included in pictorial rugs." private collection

Date

1920

Photographer / author

Navajo artist

Archive

Wikimedia Commons

Type

image

Original size

1,169 × 2,000 pixels

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