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Title Navajo blanket weaver
Call Number N-338
Summary A Native American woman weaves a patterned, Navajo blanket on a loom. She wears a large belt adorned with silver buckles. She sits on a blanket on top of a small bench. Several spools of wool lie in the foreground.
Date [between 1921 and 1931?]
Photographer Nusbaum, Jesse L. (Jesse Logan).
Notes Number "31." written in lower corner of negative.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Photo Materials 1 photoprint ; 12 x 17 cm. (4 3/4 x 6 1/2 in.)
1 copy photonegative ; 13 x 18 cm. (5 x 7 in.)
Copyright Copyright restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image available from the Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library.
See Also Indians of North America Women 1920-1930.
Weaving 1920-1930.
Navajo Indians 1920-1930.
Imaged.
Film negatives.
Photographic prints.
URL http://gowest.coalliance.org/cgi-bin/imager?00110338


Title Display of baskets
Call Number P-1531
Summary Close up view of Native American (Papago and Pima) baskets and Navajo blankets. The woven baskets have Yei, woman, lightning, and rolling log designs. The fringed blankets have rolling log and lightning designs.
Date 1912.
Photographer Poley, H. S. (Horace Swartley)
Collection H. S. Poley collection
Notes Title written on back of print.
Written on back of print: "Arts & crafts- basket making".
Written on nitrate negative: "229".
Vintage photographic print.
Photo Materials 1 photonegative : nitrate ; 8 x 11 cm. (3 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.)
1 photoprint ; 7 x 6 cm. (3 x 2 1/2 in.)
Condition Condition: emulsion scratched on nitrate negative.
Copyright Copyright restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image available from the Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library.
See Also Indians of North America Arts & crafts 1910-1920.
Tohono O'Odham Indians Arts & crafts 1910-1920.
Pima Indians Arts & crafts 1910-1920.
Navajo Indians Arts & crafts 1910-1920.
Pima baskets 1910-1920.
Baskets 1910-1920.
Navajo textile fabrics 1910-1920.
Photographic prints.
Nitrate negatives.
Imaged.
URL http://gowest.coalliance.org/cgi-bin/imager?00171531


Title Zuni weaver of baskets
Call Number X-30905
Summary Portrait of a seated elderly Native American Zuni Pueblo woman weaving a basket, Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico.
Date [between 1880 and 1910]
Notes Title, "Ind Pueblo, Zuni A & C basket making," and "8-S-W" hand-written on back of print.
Formerly F2787.
Photo Materials 1 photoprint ; 18 x 13 cm. (7 x 5 in.)
1 copy negative : glass ; 18 x 13 cm. (7 x 5 in.)
Condition Condition: Glass plate shows oxidation and retouch.
Copyright Copyright restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image available from the Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library.
See Also Indians of North America 1880-1910. New Mexico Zuni
Zuni Indians 1880-1910. New Mexico Zuni
Pueblo Indians 1880-1910. New Mexico Zuni
Basket making 1880-1910. New Mexico Zuni
Zuni (N.M.) 1880-1910.
Photographic prints.
Glass negatives.
Imaged.
URL http://gowest.coalliance.org/cgi-bin/imager?10030905

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