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Navajo Chief’s Blankets: Three Phases

third-phase chief blanket

Navajo Chief’s Blankets: Three Phases

By Dennis Gaffney

Posted: 2.16.2007

At the Tucson ANTIQUES ROADSHOW in summer 2006, appraiser Douglas Deihl, of Skinner in Boston, Massachusetts, examined an antique Navajo blanket, probably woven in the 1870s, that was colored with indigo blues and a variety of reds. "Stylistically," Douglas told the woman who owned the blanket, "this is called a Navajo third-phase chief’s blanket."

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