Identifier: cu31924028656738 (find matches)
Title: American Indians : first families of the Southwest
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Huckel, John Frederick, 1863-1936 Harvey, Fred
Subjects: Indians of North America
Publisher: Kansas City, Mo. : F. Harvey
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ica by theSpaniards. Later English manufacturers produced it for the Indian trade. TheIndians would barter for the cloth, unravel it and weave it in. The old Navaho bayetta is another specimen meriting the name antique.In the middle is a slit permitting the wearers head to come through. This formis known as the poncho. It is woven entirely of bayetta. Another bayetta specimen is the chiefs blanket. It is very old and hassoftened into an exquisite rose color. The Acoma wedding dress was worn by the Pueblo and in several particularsdiffers from the work of the Navaho. Instead of weaving the border pattern,as the Navaho do, it is worked out in relief with vegetable dyed wools and bayetta.The designs are emblematic of clouds and rain. The background is woven ofcarefully selected black wool. Some of the best types of modern Navaho blankets are shown in the twospecimens in which gray predominates. The Indians obtain the gray effect simplyby mixing black and white. Digitized by IVIicrosoft®
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OLD BAYETTA CHIEFS BLANKET Digitized by IVIicrosoft® ; The Navaho, a Shepherd With All the Desert for a Home The Navaho have no fixed place of abode and yet are one of the few Amer-ican Indian families growing in number. There were 7,300 of them forty yearsago when all were prisoners. In 1890 the census showed 17,000 and in 1906 theIndian office roughly estimated their number at 28,500. The Navaho home is built of tree trunks and limbs covered with grass andearth, and is conical in form. The smoke goes out through an opening in the apex.Thats the winter residence. In summer a lean-to serves between trips. Onecause for their poor houses and consequent nomadic trait is the belief that a habi-tation must be destroyed once a death occurs in it. Sometimes the loss of thehome is avoided by carrying the dying to the open and letting the end come out-side. When they decide to move, all that is necessary is to place any belongingsworth taking on a travois, mount their ponies and be on their w

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