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  It has been established that this lovely Zuni blanket was made in 1879 by a 12 year old boy. The design is the young weaver’s, who apparently was a Navajo prisoner for some time, as may be inferred by the decorations which exhibit traits of that tribe, despite the …

  Western Arizona (Fort Apache Reserve) Apache Woman carrying a baby in a cradle on her back, taken around 1907. You can see that her hair is unusually short:  she had probably cut it a few months earlier in mourning the death of a close relative. The cradle is made …

  Gathered during the 1830s by itinerant painter George Catlin, this marvelous leather garment presents designs of different periods and various decorative techniques. Besides the painted patters on the edges and on the porcupine spines woven atop the sleeve, a band of pony beads on the front and back employs …

  Wiwi-yokpa, or Mary Elmanico, of the small Passamaquoddy tribe, was part of the Abenaki Confederation. An Algonquian language group, they settled the region surrounding Passamaquoddy Bay and Lake Schoodic, near the border between Maine and New Brunswich. According to their mythology the first man and woman were created out …

  A pair of moccasins belonging to a Chippewa child, dating back to circa 1890. Made out of white deerskin, they have soft soles, bead decorations on a black cloth background, and edges and laces made of red ribbon. Animal nerves and regular thread were used to manufacture them.