Diné (Navajo) loom model

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Collection Citation: Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Diné (Navajo) lantern slides from Arizona and New Mexico, image #, NMAI.AC.454; National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.

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Scope and Contents: View of a Diné (Navajo) loom model set up to show stringing, with selvage and cords in place and the warp still over loom poles. Likely from Arizona or New Mexico. The models and weavings in L01479, L01544, L01547, L01548, were collected by George Pepper and are one of the following NMAI catalog numbers 025889.000 (02/5889), 025890.000 (02/5890), 025891.000 (02/5891), 025892.000 (02/5892).

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Diné (Navajo) lantern slides from Arizona and New Mexico

Creator

Pepper, George H. (George Hubbard), 1873-1924

Summary

This collection includes glass lantern slides depicting Diné (Navajo) scenes and items from Arizona and New Mexico, circa 1900. The lantern slides were made by George Hubbard Pepper and include photographs originally made by Pepper and Sumner Matteson, among other photographers.