Posts Tagged ‘Indian traders’
About Ten Days Ago in Gallup
Tempe, AZ We’re all home now, so I’ll catch you up on some pictures that I took of our students during our latest class. Although I do an entry on our general activities during the class, I wait until after the session is over to post pictures of the students. Day one of the class…
Read MoreWeaving Appreciation Walk in Scottsdale
Why do we seem to ignore the resources that are close to home? Well, I’m busy and I have a business to run plus um, ah aren’t most of the Native American galleries in Scottsdale dealing mostly in jewelry? I was shaken out of my ignorance last year while I was helping a friend try…
Read MoreSouthwest Trader Rendezvous
Cortez, CO I came straight to Cortez when Jennie Slick and I returned from our Boston workshop to attend the Southwest Traders Rendezvous. This event is sponsored by the Cortez Cultural Center and provides a venue for traders to discuss their stories and the past, present and future of the trading business. As you might…
Read MoreListen to a story…
Everyone says that you shouldn’t send people straight to other websites, but I think that you’ll really enjoy listening to Bruce Burnham tell you a short (1 minute and 13 seconds) story about the development of the Storm Pattern rug. I do the Burnham’s web site and this discussion got started when Bruce said the…
Read MoreWeavers and Traders: A New Study by Teresa Wilkins
Teresa J. Wilkins of the University of New Mexico, Gallup has taken up the highly charged subject of the relationship between weavers and traders in her new book, Patterns of Exchange: Navajo Weavers and Traders. I’m just getting started reading it, but I like Dr. Wilkins approach, which analyzes the complex ways in which both…
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