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Lecture

Dancers of the Nightway in Navajo Weavings

Spring opening lecture
Thursday
Thursday, February 4, 2016 - 5:30pm

Gamble Auditorium, Art Building

Rebecca M. Valette '59, Professor Emeritus, Boston College

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Unknown artist (Navajo), Yeibichai dance team, ca. 1925, handspun wool, From the Collection of Rebecca and Jean-Paul Valette
January 19, 2016 to May 29, 2016
Dancers of the Nightway

Ceremonial Imagery in Navajo Weaving

For Navajo women, the act of weaving has a sacred dimension since, according to tradition, they learned their craft from a supernatural being named Spider Woman. In the distant past, they wove warm blankets for their personal use and, on occasion, for intertribal barter. In the 1880s, the...

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Unknown artist (Navajo), Weaving with Yei figures (detail), ca. 1935-40
January 21, 2016 to April 10, 2016
People Will Know Our Names

Collection Spotlight

Curated by Lynda Teller Pete, a fifth-generation weaver from the Newcomb and Two Grey Hills areas of the Navajo Nation, this collection spotlight focuses on a ca. 1935-1940 Navajo weaving of Yei figures. As a complement to the concurrent exhibition ...

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Artist unknown (Navajo), Yeibichai dancers with children (detail), ca. 1925, from the Collection of Rebecca and Jean-Paul Valette
February 19, 2016  | Harriet L. and Paul M. Weissman Gallery
Diné Weavings
Tradition and Transformation in Indigenous Textiles of the American Southwest
Gallery Talk

Christine Delucia, Assistant Professor of History

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