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.

by Washington Matthews

Fig. 54.—Part of Navajo blanket.[ToList]

Fig. 55.—Part of Navajo blanket.[ToList]

The aboriginal woman's dress is made of two small blankets, equal in size and similar in design, sewed together at the sides, with apertures left for the arms and no sleeves. It is invariably woven in black or dark-blue native wool with a broad variegated stripe in red imported yarn or red bayeta at each end, the designs being of countless variety. Plates XXXIV and XXXV represent women wearing such dresses.

Fig. 56.—Diagram showing formation of warp of sash.[ToList]