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THE PIMA INDIANS 



[ ETn. Axx. 26 



through the cloth under the selvage, thus rendering the temple readily 

 adjustable." 



The collection contains one old headband'' or belt (fig. 75, o), which 

 its owner had laid away wrapped around his long hair which he had 

 been induced to cut off. It is woven from tiglitly twisted cotton yarn, 

 the colors being bhick, white, green, and yellow, arranged in a zigzag 

 pattern, as shown in the figure. The reverse side is without pattern 

 and not intended to be seen. Another headband"^ (fig. 75, b) was made 



Fig. 75. a. Old belt headband; b, new b<'lt hi-iidband. 



to order and is of a much simpler design and style of weaving. The 

 colors are black, white, and red. 



There are two belts or headbands in the Xational ^luseum that 

 were collected by Bartlett in 1850. One of these, no. 178911, is a 



a Doctor Palmer collected a Pima loom in 1885, which is now in the National Museum, no. 76008. The 

 beams are of cactus wood, l.410m. long, 6 cm. in diameter. Theheddleis of arrowwood, the same length 

 as the beams, and is 8 mm. in diameter. The blanket, which is about half finished, is 57 cm. wide and 

 1.100 m. long. The selvage is notdyed, but there is a red weft thread 29 cm. from the end and a second 

 one near it which passes across the middle third of the oloth. The batten is 91 cm. long, 25 mm. 

 wide, and the shuttle 92 cm. The cloth is smoothly and evenly woven, having 8 warp and 11 wool 

 threads to the inch. 



i Length. 1.900 ra.: width, 05 mm. • 



c T^ength, 2.270 m.; width, 57 nun. 



