Learn to identify Early Navajo weavings from one of the experts in the field Dr. Mark Sublette owner of Medicine Man Gallery. This video gives you the tools to understand what defines an early blanket done by the Navajo's from the eighteen hundreds.
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Indian Blankets Tips on Navajo Classic Blankets and their values
Well, I think today we'll talk about classic blankets. These are real blankets that were worn basically like I'm wearing it now. In fact, a blanket like this, which came from the New Mexico governor when he was a territorial governor in the 1870s, was a very valuable commodity even in its day. In fact, a great blanket like this in the 1870s could bring upwards to 250 to even maybe $300, and by the turn of the century, people like Randolph Hearst of the Hearst publishing would be paying upwards to $1,500 for a great blanket like this. In today's market, classic blankets can bring anywhere from (oh) 75,000 dollars, kind of at the lower end, upwards to half a million. The thing that makes these so beautiful and so interesting as well as rare is when they were made. Tthe classic period (like this timeframe) was done anywhere from about the 1750s upwards to 1860s. Once the Navajos went to the Bosque Redondo, which is where they were interned as prisoners of war, a new period started, which was the late-classic period. Now, when you look to the blankets, you can see these are all classic blankets as well. What makes a classic blanket has to do with the composition, and one of the things that you look for is this - which is bayeta. Bayeta was a trade cloth. This was a commercially made product that came in bolts of cloth that the Navajos would either trade from the Spanish or white settlers, or sometimes they would just take the cloths; they would do raids. This particular piece actually came from a Navajo man, and we know the history on it, and it had been in his family since the 1860s. What the trade cloth is interesting is that the small little threads that you can see on it would actually be unraveled, and then either paired or regarded to form what we have here. This here is a similar cloth; this is a trade cloth or bayeta that was used. In fact, if you look at these blankets here these all are early-classic pieces from that 1860s timeframe, and they all use bayeta or red trade cloth. All this cloth was, and in this particular case, was a natural dye, either lac or cochineal, which were small little parasites that live on Nopal cactus. It's very difficult to collect it. They would collect these things, then they would be used as export and made into a something like this, which is a commercially made piece. Then the Navajos would trade for it, unravel it, and re-spin it. You can imagine the time that it would take to make such a dense textile like this. It could take anywhere from a year to maybe even a year and a half, from the process of spinning and unraveling it, reusing it, and then making the final piece. It took an expert person in the craft to make something like this as well as an artist. Classic blankets are very collectible; they're hard to find and when you do, you're probably going to pay a lot unless it happens to be like the Antiques Roadshow where it's sitting on the back of your couch.
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