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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.
    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.
    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.

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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. - Washington Matthews

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      Title: 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.

      Author: Washington Matthews

      Release Date: February 10, 2006 [EBook #17742]

      Language: English

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      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.

      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 Navajos, while with none in the entire continent is it less Europeanized. As in language, habits, and opinions, so in arts, the Navajos have been less influenced

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