Atypical Navajo weaving designs are the muse for painter Francis Livingston’s abstract work Most collectors of Navajo textiles can readily identify a Navajo rug pattern; one with classic hooks and intricate design elements. But as with any artists, not all early Navajo weavers stuck to the script. There is a small subset of textiles that […]
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Contested Territory: New Mexico’s Long, Twisted Path from Colony to Statehood When New Mexico became the 47th state of the Union on January 6, 1912, it already had been a European/American settlement for 314 years. Over that long history, New Mexico’s borders changed repeatedly as Spain, France, Britain, United States, Mexico, Texas, and the Confederate
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A Santa Fe Treasure Turns 75 by Jonathan Batkin, Director of Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian The Wheelwright Museum, the oldest private, non-profit museum in New Mexico, turns 75 this year. The result of collaboration between Mary Cabot Wheelwright, Navajo chanter Hastiin Klah, and reservation trader Frances J. “Franc” Newcomb, the museum was the
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