Under the Rainbow - Navajo Germantown Weavings

Under the Rainbow - Navajo Germantown Weavingsby Mark SubletteAll images courtesy of Mark Sublette Medicine Man Gallery, Tucson, AZ, and Santa Fe, NMCourtesy Native American Art, June/July 2016Navajo Third Phase Germantown chief's blanket, ca. 1890, 48" x 73-1/2"Navajo blankets in the 1800s were prized not only for beauty, but also functionality.  Plains Indians coveted these wider-than-long striped blankets, so-called chief’s blankets.  Several horses could be traded to obtain a single Navajo serape, which might take the Navajo weaver a year to produce.  The textiles were often tight enough to repel water with a design sense toward simplicity.  Weavings from this...