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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Navajo weavers, by Washington Matthews This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org 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 Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NAVAJO WEAVERS *** Produced by PM for Bureau of American Ethnology, Jeannie Howse and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliotheque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr) 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
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