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Hopi Blanket
ca. 1876
Arizona

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We do not know who made this blanket. However, among the Hopis weaving traditionally was done by males, like the young man pictured here. 

Hopi man weaving

Weaver, Hopi, 1902, Oraibi, Arizona. Photographer: H. E. Hoopes.  National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution, neg. no. 32357

 
 
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