This Mayo weaver is making a sarape. She sits at a horizontal loom and pulls horizontal (or weft) threads through a section of vertical (or warp) threads. This weaving by sections is called the tapestry technique, and the Mayos use it to produce both sarapes and cobijas.

Top: Mayo weaver, ca. 1978, on Río Mayo between Álamos and San Bernardo, Sonora, Mexico. Photographer: Eugene H. Boudreau. National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Boudreau Collection, Photo Lot 99-47