4. Hollister, U.S.

Navajo and His Blanket.
Publisher: U.S. Hollister1903.
Red cloth, gilt lettering, square paste-on cover illustration, marbled boards. An important source for anyone interested in the history of the Navajo and Navajo textiles. The 140-page volume traces the history of the Navajo and contains, in addition to numerous black and white photograph, eight full-page color reproductions of Navajo blankets from the author's own collection. In the highly personal 1903 introduction to the text, Hollister writes: "My interest in these really wonderful products of the simple looms of the Navajo dates from the first year of my residence in the Rocky Mountain country, and has remained unabated through the twenty years or more that have elapsed since. During this period I have had many opportunities to learn something about the aboriginal people of Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona, having frequently visited the wigwams and wickyups of the Utes and of the Apaches, the adobe villages of the Pueblos, and the hogans of the Navajos. Though my boyhood years were spent on the pioneer line, and among my earlier recollections are those of Chippewa Indians calling in bands at my father's house in southern Wisconsin when that part of the country was practically a wilderness, I have never been in sympathy with those who think "the only good Indians are dead ones." There are many good Indians, and also many bad ones. But it might be worth while to remember that not all white men are good." This quotation will give an indication of the period flavor of the account.

200/400     SOLD: $115.00

Condition: Discoloration on cover. Otherwise very good.