Native North American Textiles and Works on Paper

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Fourth-Phase Chief’s-Blanket Style Rug (detail), c. 1900. Southwest, Diné (Navajo) female artist. Wool; tapestry weave; 178.4 x 151.1 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Amelia Elizabeth White, 1937.903

Friday, December 9, 2022–Sunday, December 3, 2023
Location:  231 Native North American
Sarah P. and William R. Robertson Gallery
Free; No Ticket Required

About The Exhibition

Newly on display from the permanent collection are two Diné (Navajo) garments from the late 1800s—a woman’s dress and a rug woven for the collector’s market, modeled on the Diné shoulder blanket. Also new on view is a watercolor from the 1920s by the Pueblo artist Ma Pe Wi (Velino Shije Herrera), who was key to a major development in Southwest Indigenous arts as Natives took control of representing their own cultures after centuries of marginalization.