Collecting the Weaver's Art: The William Claflin Collection of Southwestern Textiles

by Laurie D. Webster, Anthony Berlant, Hillel Burger

This is the first publication on a remarkable collection of sixty-six outstanding Pueblo and Navajo textiles donated to the Peabody Museum in the 1980s by William Claflin, Jr., a prominent Boston businessman, avocational anthropologist, and patron of Southwestern archaeology. Claflin bequeathed to the museum not only these beautiful textiles, but also his detailed accounts of their collection histories--a rare record of the individuals who had owned...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0873654005
• ISBN13: 9780873654005
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology,
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.1" x 8.5"