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Hopi Blanket
ca. 1876
Arizona

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The Hopi and most other Pueblo societies in the southwestern United States have regarded weaving as predominantly if not exclusively a male occupation. These photographs, taken at Hopi near the turn of the 20th century, show Hopi men carding and spinning wool yarn and weaving a blanket on a traditional vertical loom.

Hopi men processing wool Hopi Weaver

Left: Hopi men processing wool, ca. 1900, Oraibi, Arizona. Photographer unknown; photograph from J.H. Bratley Collection. National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution, neg. no. 53453

Right: Hopi Weaver, ca. 1900, Arizona. Photographer unknown. National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution, neg. no. 57497

 
 
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