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Navajo Blanket
1881
New Mexico
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Navajos and many other Indian people used blankets not only on their beds, but as outer garments, as seen here in a photograph of a Navajo delegation to Washington, D.C., taken in 1874. The owner of the blanket shown here, Ganado Mucho, stands in the back row, second from the left.

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Navajo delegation, 1874, Washington, D.C. Photographer: C.M. Bell. National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution, neg. no. 2410-C

 
 
 
 
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