The borders on the Colgate University Native American Studies web site are small details taken from images of textiles from throughout the Americas. The images were taken from some of the books listed below. This list is just a small sampling of the books available on the textile and weaving traditions of North and South America. For information on locating these books or many others on Native American textiles, please see the Colgate University Library.

North America

Bonar, Eulalie H. Woven by the grandmothers: nineteenth-century Navajo textiles from the National Museum of the American Indian. Navajo translations by Ellavina Perkins and Esther Yazzie. Washington [D.C.]: Smithsonian Institution Press in association with the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, 1996.

Brody, J. J Between traditions: Navajo weaving toward the end of the nineteenth century [exhibition]. Iowa City: University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1976.

A burst of brilliance: Germantown, Pennsylvania, and Navajo weaving. [catalog of an exhibition, November 12, 1994 to February 12, 1995] / guest curators, Joe Ben Wheat and Lucy Fowler Williams. University of Pennsylvania, Arthur Ross Gallery, 1994.

Harmsen, W.D., ed. Patterns and sources of Navajo weaving. Photography, F.C. Hilker, Denver, Colo.: Harmsen Pub. Co., 1977.

Hedlund, Ann Lane. Reflections of the weaver's world: the Gloria F. Ross Collection of Contemporary Navajo Weaving. Denver, Colo.: Denver Art Museum; [Seattle]: distributed by the University of Washington Press, 1992.

Katzenberg, Dena S. "And eagles sweep across the sky": Indian textiles of the North American West [exhibition]. Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1977.

Kent, Kate Peck. Prehistoric textiles of the Southwest. Santa Fe, N.M.: School of American Research, 1983.

Ledig, Rebecca. Navajo pictorial weaving: Native American artists integrate Euro-American cultural images. Carol Ann Lorenz, Curator of Exhibitions. [Hamilton, N.Y.: Longyear Museum of Anthropology, Colgate University, 1996]

The Lorimer Collection of Southwestern Weavings. [catalog of an auction November 26, 1991] Sotheby's #6265. New York, 1991.

Petersen James B. ed. A most indispensable art native fiber industries from eastern North America. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1996.

Samuel, Cheryl. The raven's tail. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1987.

Torrence, Gaylord and Robert Hobbs. The Mesquakie of Iowa: Art of the Red Earth People. The University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1989.

Wright, Robin K, ed. A Time of Gathering: Native Heritage in Washington State. Seattle: The University of Washington Press, 1991.

Middle America

O'Neale, Lila M. Textiles of highland Guatemala. Drawings by Lucretia Nelson. Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1945.

Robert H. Lowie Museum of Anthropology. Evolution in textile design from the highlands of Guatemala: seventeen male tzutes, or headdresses, from Chichicastenango in the collections of the Lowie Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley . By Margot Blum Schevill; drawings by Carolyn Shapiro. Berkeley, Calif.: Lowie Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley; Seattle, WA: Distributed by the University of Washington Press, 1985.

Rowe, Ann P. A century of change in Guatemalan textiles. New York: Center for Inter-American Relations; Seattle: Distributed by University of Washington Press, 1981.

Schevill, Margot. Maya textiles of Guatemala: the Gustavus A. Eisen collection, 1902. Historical Essay by Christopher Lutz. The Hearst Museum of Anthropology, the University of California at Berkeley. Austin [Tex.]: University of Texas Press, 1993.

Schevill, Margot Blum, Janet Catherine Berlo, Edward B. Dwyer, eds. Textile traditions of Mesoamerica and the Andes: an anthology. New York: Garland, 1991.

Textile Museum (Washington, D.C.) Molas: art of the Cuna Indians. [Edited and designed by Jeannette R. Mueller Washington] Circulated by the international Exhibitions Foundation, 1973.

South America

Adelson, Laurie. Aymara weavings: ceremonial textiles of colonial and 19th century Bolivia. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1983.

Harcourt, Raoul d'. Textiles of ancient Peru and their techniques. Ed. by Grace G. Denny and Carolyn M. Osborne. Tr. by Sadie Brown. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1974.

Rowe, Ann Pollard ed. The Junius B. Bird Conference on Andean Textiles (1984 : Washington, D.C.) Washington, D.C.: Textile Museum, 1986.

Museums of the Andes. [Commentary texts by Elizabeth P. Benson, William J. Conklin ; introduction by Junius B. Bird.] New York, N.Y.: Newsweek, 1981.

Rowe, Ann P. Costumes & featherwork of the Lords of Chimor: textiles from Peru's North coast. Washington, D.C.: Textile Museum, 1984.

The textile art of Peru. [created and directed by JosŽ Antonio de Lavalle and JosŽ Alejandro Gonz‡lez Garc’a] Lima, Peru: Industria Textil Piura, PIMAX: L.L. Editores, 1993.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. To weave for the sun: ancient Andean textiles in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. [Commentary texts by Rebecca Stone-Miller, with contributions by Anne Paul, Susan A. Niles, Margaret Young-Sanchez.] New York, N.Y.: Thames and Hudson, 1994.

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