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style of loom ; but it would be a very difficult task with that of the Nava- 

 jos. Plate XXXVII represents a Zufii woman weaving a belt. The 

 wooden healds are shown, and again, enlarged, in Fig. 58. The Zuni 

 women weave all their long, narrow webs according to the same system ; 

 but Mr. Bandelier has informed me that the Indians of the Pueblo 

 of Cochiti make the narrow garters and hair-bands after the manner 

 of the Zufiis, and the broad belts after the manner of the Xavajos. 

 §XI. I will close by inviting the reader to compare Plate XXX VI 

 and Fig. 59. The former shows a Navajo woman weaving a belt; the 



Fig. 59.— Girl weaving (from an Aztec picture). 



latter a girl of ancient Mexico weaving a web of some other descrip- 

 tion. The one is from a photograph taken from life; the other I have 

 copied from Tylor's "Anthropology" (p. 248); but it appears earlier in 

 the copy of Codex Yaticana in Lord Kingsborough's "Antiquities of 

 Mexico." The way in which the warp is held down and made, tense, by a 

 rope or band secured to the lower beam and sat upon by the weaver, is the 

 same in both cases. And it seems that the artist who drew the original 

 rude sketch sought to represent the girl, not as working " the cross-thread 

 of the woof in and out on a stick," but as manipulating the reed-fork 

 with one hand and grasping the heald-rod and shed-rod in the other. 



Note.— The engravings were prepared while the author was in New Mexico and 

 could not be submitted for his inspection until the paper was ready for the press. 

 Some alterations were made from the original pictures. The following are tin- most 

 important to be noted : Iu Plate XXXVIII the batten .should appear held horizontally, 

 uot obliquely. Fig. 5 is reduced and cannot fairly delineate the gradations iu color 

 and regular sharp outlines of the finely-serrated figures. Fig, 53 does not convey the 

 fact that the stripes are of uniform width and all the right-angles accurately made. 



