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

PL. XXXVII.—ZUÑI WOMAN WEAVING A BELT.[ToList]

§ X. Their way of weaving long ribbon-like articles, such as sashes or belts, garters, and hair-bands, which we will next consider, presents many interesting variations from, the method pursued in making blankets. To form, a sash the weaver proceeds as follows: She drives into the ground four sticks and on them she winds her warp as a continuous string (however, as the warp usually consists of threads of three different colors it is not always one continuous string) from, below upwards in such a way as to secure two sheds, as shown in the diagram, Fig. 56.

Fig. 57.—Section of Navajo belt.[ToList]

Fig. 58.—Wooden heald of the Zuñis.[ToList]