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Artist:Misc
Medium: Video
Running Time: 30 minutes
Produced By: WETA

Item #: 6043
Name: l9th Century Navajo Textiles
Price: $19.95

About this video...
Celebrating the art of Native American women weavers, this stunning program captures the rhythms of Native life - the wind, the drums, the whirl of the loom - through stories, songs, photography, and arch~val footage. Viewers explore the 19th-century Navajo textiles collection of the National Museum of the American Indian, and learn how contemporary weavers sustain their communities' economies and culture. Follow D.Y. Begay as she shears her prized ram and picks plants for making dye, we see, hear and feel how the Navajo nation has reconstructed its major art forrn and is saving its cultural heritage