The Navajos!
Navajo Squaw Weaving Blanket - 1903 was released on: USA: November 1903
Weaving
The Navajo tribe in the southwestern United States are known for raising sheep. Sheep play a significant role in Navajo culture and are used for meat, wool, and ceremonial purposes. The Navajo have a long history of sheep herding and weaving, creating beautiful rugs and textiles.
Navajo culture, just like Germans have German culture and people in Japan have Japanese culture.
the Navajo Indians where famous for there many kinds of rug weaving tek neeks
Navajo! The Navajo Indians are famous for their beautiful woven rugs and silver jewelry! :)
Ann Lane Hedlund has written: 'Contemporary Navajo Weaving' 'Reflections of the weaver's world' -- subject(s): Exhibitions, Indian textile fabrics, Art collections, Navajo textile fabrics, Hand weaving, Rugs 'Navajo weaving from the Santa Fe collection, 1971-1996'
Hopis lived in Puebloes, Navajos Lived in small groups that moved with the seasons. Pueblos mastered basket weaving and pottery, Navajo mastered Rug Weaving and Silversmithing.
Much of Navajo culture is the same even though it has gradually changed. Many things that are new to the Navajo become "Navajo-ized". For example working with silver came from the Spanish long ago but the patterns and aesthetics are very Navajo with fourfold symmetry and stones that have traditional religious/philosophical meanings. Weaving probably came from the Pueblo peoples and yet the themes are very Navajo. Even the word for car is not borrowed but from how the first model T's sounded- "Chidi", from chidi, chidi, chidi. Many Navajo live very modern "American" lives, but many others still have sheep and grow corn. Many still speak the Navajo language and many practice the traditional religion. For example, many people have a " first laugh" ceremony for their baby. Traditional philosophy is alive and well on the Navajo Nation
The oldest surviving wool Navajo weaving comes from 1805 fund on vitims of an attach in Conyon del Muerto. It is thought they were weaving in wool by the mid 1600s. Sheep arrive in the late 1500s. The period of Navajo weaving from 1650 to 1865 is called the Classic period. Before that the people of the southwest wove in cotton, apocynum (Indian hemp), yucca leaf fiber, fur, and feather cord. It is unknown when the Navajo started weaving. It is thought they learned from the Pueblo people. Cotton cloth was a major trade good in the pre 1492 time period. By 1700 the Navajo weaving was much in demand by the Spanish. Textiles do not survive as well as pottery or other artifacts.
It is thought that they adopted and vastly elaborated on surrounding Pueblo people's weaving technology. Among the Navajo the women weave and among the Hopi the men weave. The pottery is not really like Pueblo pottery and not as elaborate and typically not decorated. Perhaps they got the idea from the Pueblo people but it is not clear. They have some Pueblo elements in the archeological record. The Navajo say that Spider Woman taught them weaving.