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The making of a Navajo blanket (1902)

Pepper, George H. (George Hubbard), 1873-1924 · New York · leaf 14

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y ttsoy, ' ' pounds dowTi the woof-strands when they a combination of a comb and an awl, the have been phiced in position. Generally it awl serving to loosen any part that may is a piece of scrub-oak, three feet long, prove to be uneven after the irregular dis- three inches wide, and half an inch… … the swiftness with which THE LOOM HEADY IN EVERY WAV FOR THE liEANKET \V()i;K the numerous pieces are or rathfr the energy with which it is iist'd, manipulated is really marvellous. For de- regulates, to a great degree, the hanlness, termining the length of the different fig- ufcs in the more…

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