384 



NAVA.IO W HAVERS. 



as thai j ust -described, excepl that the healds are arranged differently 

 on the warp. The following diagram will explain this arrangement. 



To make the most approved scries of diamonds the sheds are opened 

 twice in the direct order (i. e., from below upwards) and twice in the 



Warp 



FIG. 47.— Diagram showing arrangement of lieMs in diagonal weaving. 



inverse order, thus: First, second, third, fourth, first, second, third, 

 fourth, third, second, first, fourth, third, second, first, fourth, and so 

 on. If this order is departed from the figures become irregular. If 

 the weaver continues more than twice consecutively in either order, a row 



Diagonal clot li. 



of V-shaped figures is formed, thus: WW. Plate XXXV repre- 

 sents a woman weaving a blanket of this pattern, and Fig. 48 shows a 

 portion of a- blanket which is part plain diagonal and part diamond. 



§ VIII. 1 have heretofore spoken of the Navajo weavers always as of 

 the feminine gender because the large majority of them are women. 



