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the time of the rebellion in 1680. The Navajo were 
the only people to undertake the raising of sheep on 
a considerable scale and turn to a pastoral life. 
When blankets are to be made from the wool, it 
is sorted, spread out on a sloping stone, and then washed 
by pouring hot water containing an extract of the yucca 
Navajo Woman Spinning. 
root over it. The carding is done with a pair of ordi- 
nary European hand cards and there is no evidence of 
a more primitive means ever having been employed. 
The spindle, however, is the same as that found in cliff 
