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Navajo weavers

Dr. Washington Matthews, U.S.A.

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Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-'82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 371-392.

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Plate XXXIV.— Navajo woman spinning 376

XXXV.— Weaving of diamond-shaped diagonals 380

XXXVI.— Navajo woman weaving a belt 384

XXXVII.— Zuñi women weaving a belt 388

XXXVIII.— Bringing down the batten 390

Fig. 42.— Ordinary Navajo blanket loom 378

43.— Diagram showing formation of warp 379

44.— Weaving of saddle-girth 382

45.— Diagram showing arrangement of threads of the warp in the healds and on the rod 383

46.— Weaving of saddle-girth 383

47.— Diagram showing arrangement of healds in diagonal weaving 384

48.— Diagonal cloth 384

49.— Navajo blanket of the finest quality 385

50.— Navajo blankets 386

51.— Navajo blanket 386

52.— Navajo blanket 387

53.— Navajo blanket 387

54.— Part of Navajo blanket 388

55.— Part of Navajo blanket 388

56.— Diagram showing formation of warp of sash 388

57.— Section of Navajo belt 389

58.— Wooden heald of the Zuñis 389

59.— Girl weaving (from an Aztec picture) 391

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