Telluride Museum continues lecture series December 3

Dr. Webster is an independent scholar and textile consultant based in Mancos, Colorado. She is also a Research Associate at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, and a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Arizona. She received her Ph.D. in anthropology from the U of A in 1997. Since the mid-1980s, she has been involved with the study of Southwestern textiles, including, especially now, prehistoric weaving.

One of the most extraordinary prehistoric textiles from the Southwest, a large striped cotton blanket, is curated at the Telluride Historical Museum. Dr. Webster’s talk will put the Telluride blanket into the big picture, by introducing her audience to the remarkable weaving traditions of the Southwest prior to European contact. People who think that early indigenous people ran around in skins and hides are in for a big surprise.