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NAVAJO BLANKETS 



An altractive Navajo blanket from the Museum's valuable collection. The Navajo Indians 

 of the Southwest are a wealthy pastoral people, and the best Indian blanket makers of North America 



they are like their southwestern relatives and neighbors. The baskets of 

 the Apache are shown in the large end case which is in contrast with the 

 corresponding case on the other side of the hall. Not the environment but 

 social habits caused one people to develop pottery and the other to make 

 the easily transported and not easily breakable baskets. [See Handbook, 

 Indians of the Southwest.] 



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