Lynda Teller Pete Author

Laurie D. Webster is an independent scholar, textile consultant, and visiting scholar in the School of Anthropology at the University of Arizona. Louise I. Stiver is a museum consultant specializing in research and content development and the formersenior curator of the New Mexico History Museum/Palace of the Governors. D. Y. Begay is a weaver from a lineage of esteemed Navajo weavers. Her tapestries have been collectedby both private and major museums in North America and Europe and featured in internationalpublications. She has co-curated exhibits at the Kennedy Museum of Art, the National Museum of the American Indian, and the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian and is a recipient of the Lifetime Contributions to Native American Art Award. Lynda Teller Pete is a fifth-generation Navajo weaver who grew up weaving Two Grey Hills tapestries, taught by her mother and sisters. She has won several textile awards, including Best of Division and Best of Classification at the Santa Fe Indian Market in 2011 and Best of Division again in 2013. She also appeared in a 2016 segment of Craft in America.