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Spider Woman's Gift: Nineteenth-Century Dine Textiles at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture - Couverture souple

 
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Synopsis

At Canyon de Chelly, in the heart of the Navajo Nation, stands an eight-hundred-foot sandstone rock formation known as Spider Rock. According to Diné oral history, this sacred place is where Spider Woman makes her home. For centuries, her gift of weaving has provided the Diné with a constant means of sustenance.

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À propos de l'auteur

Shelby J. Tisdale is the former director of the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology in Santa Fe and former director of the Millicent Rogers Museum. She is the author of Fine Indian Jewelry of the Southwest: The Millicent Rogers Museum Collection (Museum of New Mexico Press).

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