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Title: Navajo weavers
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.

Author: Washington Matthews

Release Date: February 10, 2006 [EBook #17742]

Language: English

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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION--BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY.

NAVAJO WEAVERS.

BY

DR. WASHINGTON MATTHEWS, U.S.A.

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.

ILLUSTRATIONS.

PLATE XXXIV.--Navajo woman spinning 376
XXXV.--Weaving of diamond-shaped diagonals 380
XXXVI.--Navajo woman weaving a belt 384
XXXVII.--Zuni 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.--Nava