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Begay is a fourth generation weaver [3] who grew up surrounded by women weavers. [4] From them she learned sheep herding and shearing, and how to work with wool. She learned to spin and card wool, and traditional Navajo weaving techniques. [4] Her mother taught her to identify plants to make dyes and to understand the dyeing process. [5]
Navajo Woman at a waterfall c. 1920. The Navajo Nation ( Navajo: Naabeehó Bináhásdzo ), also known as Navajoland, [3] is an Indian reservation of Navajo people in the United States. It occupies portions of northeastern Arizona, northwestern New Mexico, and southeastern Utah. The seat of government is located in Window Rock, Arizona .
A fingerbraiding modern arrow sash handmade in 2007 (with details of the patterns) A machine-woven modern arrow sash The ceinture fléchée [sɛ̃tyʁ fleʃe] (French, 'arrowed sash') or ('arrow sash') is a type of colourful sash, a traditional piece of Québécois clothing linked to at least the 17th century (of the Lower Canada, Canada East and early confederation eras).
California is excluded from most definitions of the Southwest. Art of the American Southwest is the visual arts of the Southwestern United States. This region encompasses Arizona, New Mexico, and parts of California, Colorado, Nevada, Texas, and Utah. [1] These arts include architecture, ceramics, drawing, filmmaking, painting, photography ...
The Navajo [a] are a Native American people of the Southwestern United States . With more than 399,494 enrolled tribal members as of 2021, [1] [4] the Navajo Nation is the largest federally recognized tribe in the United States; additionally, the Navajo Nation has the largest reservation in the country. The reservation straddles the Four ...
Andean textiles. Chancay sleeved tunic with flying condors, Chancay culture, Central Coast, A.D. 1200–1400. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven. The Andean textile tradition once spanned from the Pre-Columbian to the Colonial era throughout the western coast of South America, but was mainly concentrated in what is now Peru.
Wampum Georgina Ontario [clarification needed] Wampum is a traditional shell bead of the Eastern Woodlands tribes of Native Americans. It includes white shell beads hand-fashioned from the North Atlantic channeled whelk shell and white and purple beads made from the quahog or Western North Atlantic hard-shelled clam.
Clothes were secured with ornamental clasps or pins (περόνη, perónē; cf. fibula), and a belt, sash, or girdle might secure the waist. Peplos, Chitons. The inner tunic was a peplos or chiton. The peplos was a worn by women. It was usually a heavier woollen garment, more distinctively Greek, with its shoulder clasps.