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قراءة كتاب 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.
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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.
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.
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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 |
NAVAJO WEAVERS.
By Dr. Washington Matthews.
§ I. The art of weaving, as it exists among the Navajo Indians of New Mexico and Arizona, possesses points of great interest to the student of ethnography. It is of aboriginal origin; and while European art has undoubtedly modified it, the extent and nature of the foreign influence is easily traced. It is by no means certain, still there are many reasons for supposing, that the Navajos learned their craft from the Pueblo Indians, and that, too, since the advent of the Spaniards; yet the pupils, if such they be, far excel their masters to-day in the beauty and quality of their work. It may be safely stated that with no native tribe in America, north of the Mexican boundary, has the art of weaving been carried to greater perfection than among the