Serape ca. 1865-70 Unidentified Serapes (the Spanish term for blanket) are a prominent form of Navajo weaving. Vibrantly colored and vividly patterned, these wearing blankets build on long-established design themes. Contemporary Native artists and scholars have identified this large weaving, with its unusual white background, as a "not- of-free-will" blanketmeaning it was likely produced by a highly skilled Navajo woman enslaved in a Spanish American household. An 1865 congressional report estimated that there were between 1,500 and 3,000 Navajo captives living in the Rio Grande Valley as well as in northern Mexico in these years. While this particular form of enslavement largely ended in the late 1870s, its traumatic legacy continues to reverberate today.. Serape. Unidentified Navajo Artist. Diné/Navajo, Native American. ca. 1865-70. Dyed and undyed wool

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Serape ca. 1865-70 Unidentified Serapes (the Spanish term for blanket) are a prominent form of Navajo weaving. Vibrantly colored and vividly patterned, these wearing blankets build on long-established design themes. Contemporary Native artists and scholars have identified this large weaving, with its unusual white background, as a "not- of-free-will" blanketmeaning it was likely produced by a highly skilled Navajo woman enslaved in a Spanish American household. An 1865 congressional report estimated that there were between 1,500 and 3,000 Navajo captives living in the Rio Grande Valley as well as in northern Mexico in these years. While this particular form of enslavement largely ended in the late 1870s, its traumatic legacy continues to reverberate today.. Serape. Unidentified Navajo Artist. Diné/Navajo, Native American. ca. 1865-70. Dyed and undyed wool

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