Thursday, August 28, 2014

World record price for a Navajo blanket

 Only about 100 of these original "first-phase" chief's blankets are thought to exist.
Details at The Telegraph.  At the risk of throwing a wet blanket on a feel-good story, one has to wonder whether his ancestor in the 1860s spent four years' salary to purchase the blanket, as is postulated in the video.

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