New Mexico - Indians (3)
Association
Estella Mae Wheeler
Dateca. 1961
MediumPaper & Ink
Dimensions5 × 8 in. (12.7 × 20.3 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Caroline Bowdish
Object numberPA2021.049.201
Description8. The sheep & goats which the Spaniards introduced to the Southwest appealed to the Navajos; & they soon built up extensive flocks. A Navajo woman in long sateen skirt & velveteen blouse herding for her flock among the colorful mts. is an unforgettable sight. 9. The Navajo weaver's loom is often set up out of doors. The women, who are also the heads of the households, do the weaving, which may take many painstaking weeks of work befor the rug is finished.
10. No Navajo rug pattern has ever been set to paper but is carefully guarded in the weaver's mind. Work is done with great precision, except that one small defect is always left because of a superstition that work completed to perfection means that death soon follows.
On View
Not on view
ca. 1915
ca. 1910
ca. 1915
Scott
ca. 1950
ca. 1910