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“Navajo Weaving”

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	No. 000321 Title: Navajo Rug Weaver Author(s): W.T. Mullarky (Photographer) Description: A Navajo woman weaving a rug on a traditional loom. Publisher: Publication Date: Collection(s): Kenneth M. Chapman Collection; at the School for Advanced Research Archive Catalog Number: Box 62, AC02.931.Mullarky F16-20 Credits:
	No. 000637 Title: The Churro Author(s): Southwest Crossroads Spotlight Description: The introduction of churro sheep by the Spanish and their resulting importance to Navajo culture. Publisher: SAR Press, School for Advanced Research Publication Date: 2005 Collection(s): Catalog Number: Credits:
	No. 000318 Title: Navajos Shearing Sheep Author(s): W.T. Mullarky (Photographer) Description: Navajos shearing sheep. Publisher: Publication Date: Collection(s): Kenneth M. Chapman Collection; at the School for Advanced Research Archive Catalog Number: Box 62, AC02.931.Mullarky F15-6 Credits:
	No. 000636 Title: Navajo Weaving: A Study in Cultural Change and Adaptability Author(s): Southwest Crossroads Spotlight Description: The development of Navajo weaving for individual use and for trade. Publisher: SAR Press, School for Advanced Research Publication Date: 2005 Collection(s): Catalog Number: Credits:
	No. 000225 Title: Navajo Weaver on an Upright Loom Author(s): Ford Nez (Artist) Description: Woodblock print in black and white; Navajo woman seated at upright loom. Signed: Ford Nez. Publisher: Publication Date: Collection(s): Indian Arts Research Center, School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe Catalog Number: School for Advanced Research Catalogue No. IAF.244 Credits:
	No. 000320 Title: The Complete Story of a Navajo Blanket, Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Author(s): Unidentified (Artist) Description: A tourist postcard showing a Navajo weaver at a traditional loom. Publisher: Publication Date: Collection(s): Kenneth M. Chapman Collection; at the School for Advanced Research Archive Catalog Number: Box 62, AC02.931.Fred Harvey F16-17 Credits:
	No. 000742 Title: Trading Posts in the American Southwest Author(s): Southwest Crossroads Spotlight Description: An overall description of trading posts in the American Southwest. Publisher: SAR Press, School for Advanced Research Publication Date: 2006 Collection(s): Catalog Number: Credits: seco - Traders sometimes manufactured and used their own form of money called secos. They were tokens made out of pieces of thin metal. A person could use secos to buy supplies usually at the same trading post where they received them.] p. 84 from The Indian Traders
	No. 000823 Title: Life at Wide Ruins Source(s): Wide Ruins Author(s): Sallie R. Wagner (Author) Description: Sallie Wagner writes of her days running a trading post with her husband on the Navajo reservation in the 1930s and 1940s. Publisher: University of New Mexico Press Publication Date: 1997 Collection(s): Catalog Number: pp. 8-9; pp. 16-17 (Chapter One A Business Unto Itself); p. 42 Credits: Excerpt courtesy University of New Mexico Press.
	No. 000258 Title: Navajo Woman and Daughter Author(s): Bob Martinez (Artist) Description: Navajo Painting. Publisher: Publication Date: Collection(s): Indian Arts Research Center, School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe Catalog Number: School for Advanced Research Catalogue No. SAR1989-21-42 Credits:
	No. 000251 Title: High Clouds Over the Mesas Author(s): Robert Draper (Artist) Description: Realistic polychrome landscape of mesas and high desert with hogans, covered wagons, horseback riders along road in foreground, with expansive sky filled with storm clouds and downpours of rain. Publisher: Publication Date: Collection(s): Indian Arts Research Center, School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe Catalog Number: School for Advanced Research Catalogue No. SAR1985-20-52 Credits:
	No. 000824 Title: Rugs for Trade or Cash Source(s): Wide Ruins Author(s): Sallie R. Wagner (Author) Description: Sallie Wagner writes of her days running a trading post with her husband on the Navajo reservation in the 1930s and 1940s. Publisher: University of New Mexico Press Publication Date: 1997 Collection(s): Catalog Number: Chapter Four; pp. 50-58 Credits: Excerpt courtesy University of New Mexico Press.
	No. 000240 Title: Navajo Rug, 1900-1915 Author(s): Unidentified Navajo (Artist) Description: Regular weave. Serrate design in red, balck, white and faded purple. Has many lazy lines. Publisher: Publication Date: Collection(s): Indian Arts Research Center, School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe Catalog Number: School for Advanced Research Catalogue No. IAFt345 Credits:
	No. 000343 Title: Interior of the Trading Post at Wide Ruins Author(s): Unidentified (Photographer) Description: Interior of the trading post at Wide Ruins. Publisher: Publication Date: Collection(s): Sallie Wagner Collection; at the School for Advanced Research Archive Catalog Number: Box 3, AC16:41, SW5 Credits:
	No. 000626 Title: Navajo Author(s): Southwest Crossroads Spotlight Description: Navajo history: early migration from Alaska and Canada to encounters with the Spanish and war with the United States; concludes with an account of contemporary Navajo life. Publisher: SAR Press, School for Advanced Research Publication Date: 2005 Collection(s): Catalog Number: Credits:
	No. 000322 Title: Navajo Family Author(s): W.T. Mullarky (Photographer) Description: Navajo family standing in front of a hogan. Publisher: Publication Date: Collection(s): Kenneth M. Chapman Collection; at the School for Advanced Research Archive Catalog Number: Box 62, AC02.931.Mullarky F16-8 Credits:
	No. 000319 Title: Navajo Sheep Grazing in Canyon de Chelly Author(s): W.T. Mullarky (Photographer) Description: Navajo sheep grazing in Canyon de Chelly. Publisher: Publication Date: Collection(s): Kenneth M. Chapman Collection; at the School for Advanced Research Archive Catalog Number: Box 62, AC02.931.Mullarky F15-7 Credits:
	No. 000446 Title: Navajo Squaw Dance, 1935 Author(s): T. Harmon Parkhurst (Photographer) Description: Publisher: Publication Date: Collection(s): Palace of the Governors Catalog Number: DCA3038 Credits: T. Harmon Parkhurst (photographer), Courtesy Palace of the Governors (MNM/DCA) #3038
	No. 000822 Title: To the Country of the People Source(s): Traders to the Navajo: The Story of the Wetherills at Kayenta Author(s): Francis Gilmore (Author); Louisa Wade Wetherill (Author) Description: Louisa and John Wetherill open a trading post on the Navajo reservation in the early 1900s. Publisher: University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque Publication Date: 1953 Collection(s): Catalog Number: Chapter IV; pp. 49-54 Credits: Excerpt courtesy University of New Mexico Press.