An attractive Navajo blanket from the Museum’s valuable collection. The Navajo Indians 
of the Southwest are a wealthy pastoral people and the only Indian blanket-makers of North 
America. 
The woman’s dress is made |by sewing 
Bayeta 
Navajo woman’s blanket of black and bayeta red. 
together two blankets along the sides and one end, leaving openings for head and arms. 
blankets, not made since 1875, are the oldest and most valuable of Navajo weaving; each contains 
some amount, small or large, of red yarn ravelled from Spanish military uniforms 
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