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. 



Navajo woman's blanket of black and bayeta red. The woman's dress is made by sewing 

 together two blankets along the sides and one end. leaving openings for head and arms. Bayeta 

 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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