SKINNER MUSEUM: Closed
GivePeople Will Know Our Names
Collection Spotlight
January 21, 2016 Through April 10, 2016
In the Hinchcliff Reception Hall
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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 Dancers of the Nightway: Ceremonial Imagery in Navajo Weaving, Pete shares her personal history and deep knowledge of Navajo weavings to offer her perspective on the choices that Navajo artists made in the first part of the 20th century. Although many of the weavers from this period remain unidentified, their traditions and voices live on through their textiles and through the stories of their descendants.
Curated by Lynda Teller Pete
Events And Links
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...
February 4, 2016 | Gamble Auditorium, Art Building
Dancers of the Nightway in Navajo Weavings
Spring opening lecture
Lecture
Rebecca M. Valette '59, Professor Emeritus, Boston College
March 3, 2016 | Hinchcliff Reception Hall
People Will Know Our Names
Gallery Talk
Reception and gallery talk with fifth-generation Diné weaver Linda Teller Pete
