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Chimayo Native American Blanket Southwestern Indian RugJdhudson store. Vinatge chimayo native american blanket that measures 70 inches long and 45 3/4 wide. The blanket is in very good shape and comes with a 3 day 100% return. The blanket comes from a local estate and i was told it was purchased in the late 1920's in new mexico. Please view all photos and email questions. Please visit other auctions for more estate and antiques to be listed all this week. While the aborigine of north america was familiar with the art of weaving prior to the coming of the spaniards, it wsa much modified and improved after his advent. The navaho brought a rude loom and rude methods of work with him. Here he found the pueblo indian and from him learned much. Then, when the spaniard came, both pueblo and navaho had sheep added to their possessions, the wool from which practically changed the future of the art of weaving as far as they were concerned. The spaniards and mexicans also brought with them their weaving arts. Many of thier numbers were able to weave blankets and the finer serapes. Hence, side by side, three different types of blanket-weaving were carried on. These were, first, that of the pueblos second, that of the navahos, and, third, that of the mexicans. Almost every mexican settlement had its weavers in the early days of their occupation of what is now united states territory, but here and there the art declined and finally disappeared, while in other settlements but one or two families preserevd their looms and continued to use them. One settlement, chimayã, however, kept up its weaving, and has so persistently continued in its practice that chimayã blankets have become known all over the civilized world, and its older and better types are highly prized by collectors. The mexican settlements known as chimayã are about thirty miles north of santa fã© and ten or twelve miles from espaã±ola, a station on the narrow-gauge line of the denver & rio grande railway, which runs from santa fã© to denver, changing at alamosa, colorado, from the narrow to the broad gauge. It was a sharp, clear, snappy afternoon in december, 1912, when i walked from espaã±ola to santa cruz, two miles away, getting a â? ~â? ~â? Zliftâ?
Z'' in a friendly buggy as i crossed the bridge over the rio de la santa cruz. Chimayã is not a town in hte sense that americans understand the term.
It is the name given to tne or eleven little settlements, stretching out for six miles or more along the santa cruz river. The name implies â? ~â? ~â?
Zthe meetnig of the streams. Â?Z'' just above the uppermost settlement the rio cundiyo and the rio chiquito unite and form the santa cruz. The dwellers in the chimayã settlements call it the rio chimayâ´ until it reaches. |
