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 or traded these weavings before they found a home in his private museum. Textile scholar Laurie Webster tells the stories of the weavings as they left their native Southwest and traveled eastward, passing through the hands of such owners and traders as a Ute Indian chief, a New England schoolteacher, a renowned artist, and various military officers and Indian agents. Her concise overview of Navajo and Pueblo weaving traditions is enhanced by the reflections of noted artist and Navajo textile expert Tony Berlant in his foreword to the text.

Contents
List of Illustrations 00
Foreword: An Artist's Perspective, by Tony Berlant 00
Acknowledgments 00
William H. Claflin Jr. and the Making of a Collection 00
William Claflin's Collectors 00
The Claflin Southwestern Textile Collection at the Peabody Museum 00
Color Plates 00
Appendix: Technical Features of Illustrated Textiles 00
Notes 00
Glossary of Southwestern Weaving Terms 00
Suggested Reading 00




Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Navajo textile fabrics Themes, motives Catalogs, Pueblo textile fabrics Themes, motives Catalogs, Indian textile fabrics Collectors and collecting Southwest, New History Catalogs, Claflin, William H,  (William Henry), b,  1893 Ethnological collections Catalogs, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology Catalogs