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Navajo woman weaving in an enclosure at Fort Wingate
Navajo woman weaving in an enclosure at Fort Wingate
Object Number 2004.29.4334
Display Title Navajo woman weaving in an enclosure at Fort Wingate
Descriptions
Object Description Written on board: "Navajo Indians (Athapascan) / Part of Fort Wingate, New Mexico, showing an enclosure occupied by a Navajo female having a hand loom in operation manufacturing a blanket."
Keywords
  • Manufacture and General Utility
  • Ethnographic
Subject
  • weaving
Department Photographic
Date 1848-1895
Artist Dr. Alfred M. Tozzer
Culture
  • Navajo
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / New Mexico
Additional Geographic Terms Fort Wingate
Materials Gelatin silver print adhered to Paperboard
Dimensions Overall: 13.34 x 19.05 cm (5 1/4 x 7 1/2 in.)

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