Navajo Squaw Weaving Blanket - 1903 was released on: USA: November 1903
Weaving
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.
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.
Weaving is shown to date back to as late as 5000BC, in Egypt.
Charles Avery Amsden has written: 'America's earliest man' -- subject(s): Indians, Origin, Prehistoric peoples 'Navaho weaving' -- subject(s): History, Indian textile fabrics, Navajo Indians, Navajo textile fabrics, Textile industry and fabrics, Weaving 'Navaho weaving, its technic and history' -- subject(s): Indian textile fabrics, Navajo Indians, Navajo textile fabrics 'The ancient Basketmakers' -- subject(s): Basket-Maker Indians
They invented the hoe, weaving and pottery :)
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