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Tradition and Tourism, 1870-1970
May 27-October 21, 2007


Navajo folk art horse, ca. 1930
Wood, leather, wool, horsehair, metal nails
Height 11 inches; length 13 inches
Gift of J.O. Brew
Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, Santa Fe

 

 

Apache basketry tray, ca. 1910
Diameter 14 inches
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Gifford Phillips
Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, Santa Fe

 

Navajo textile, ca. 1935
Wool, synthetic dye
Length 87 inches; width 62 inches
Made for trader Cozy McSparron, Chinle, Arizona
Gift of the Collectors’ Circle of the Wheelwright Museum
Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, Santa Fe

 

Navajo textile, ca. 1870
Wool, vegetal dye
Length 76 inches; width 55 ½ inches
Thought to have been made for trader Thomas Varker Keam
Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, Santa Fe

Pueblo Indian manta pins, ca. 1890
Silver, turquoise, copper
Height of tallest, 3 ¼ inches
Gift of George Taylor Anderman
Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, Santa Fe

Shoehorn, ca. 1950
Awa Tsireh, San Ildefonso Pueblo
Silver
Height 3 ½ inches; width 1 ½ inches
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Aberle
Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian

Silver spoons and other flatware, ca.1885
Navajo
Longest spoon is 7 3/8 inches
Carl Lewis Druckman Collection
Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, Santa Fe

Silver spoons, ca. 1890
Navajo
Longest spoon is 4 ¼ inches
Carl Lewis Druckman Collection
Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian

Silver earrings, ca. 1885
Zuni Pueblo
Diameter 1 ½ inches
Gift of the Collectors’ Circle of the Wheelwright Museum
Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, Santa Fe


 

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