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Embroidery Artists:

Lydia Chinana, Jemez Pueblo
Mabel Fragua, Jemez Pueblo
Isabel Gonzales, Jemez Pueblo
Lucy Lowden, Jemez Pueblo
Juana Marie Pecos, Jemez Pueblo
Frances Pino, Jemez Pueblo
Evelyn Bird Quintana, San Juan Pueblo
Romancita Sandoval, San Juan Pueblo
Shawn Tafoya, Santa Clara Pueblo
Leonore Toledo, Jemez Pueblo
Phyllis Tosa, Jemez Pueblo

Website Development/Design: Jeanne Fitzsimmons

Website Content Development:
Dolly Naranjo Neikrug: Development and Interviews
Shannon Parker: Photo credits
Kathy Whitaker: Oversight of the Project and Content

Contributing Writers: Susie Hart, Marian Rodee, and Kay Hagan

Text Editor: Catherine Cocks

Videotaping: Jeanne Fitzsimmons

Assistant Editor (video and audio): Jason Ordaz

Still Photography: Addison Doty


Image Credits

History Section Photographs:

Stephanita Herrera with a backstrap loom. Courtesy Palace of the Governors (MNM/DCA), 2288. This image is in the title bar of all of the pages in the history section. View page.

Hopi dancers, ca. 1900. Seaver Center for Western History Research, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History (www.nhm.org). View page.

Don Diego de Vargas. Courtesy Palace of the Governors (MNM/DCA), 11409. View page.

Painted yucca fiber carrying band. Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Photo 20-5-10/A4864 T455. View page.

Brocade fabric fragment. Museum of Indian Arts & Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology, MNM, David McNeece, Photographer. View page.

Blanket fragment. Negative no. AMNH H/15982, courtesy the Library, American Museum of Natural History. View page.

Woven shirt fragment. ASM 13400 , Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona , E. B. Sayles, Photographer. View page.

Woven quiver. ASM 20491, Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Helga Teiwes, Photographer. View page.

Human hair net. Museum of Indian Arts & Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology, MNM. View page.

Human hair net, detail. Museum of Indian Arts & Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology, MNM, Doug Kahn, Photographer. View page

Plate E, Awatovi, Test 14, Room 2, Right Wall Design 6, from Watson Smith, Kiva Mural Decorations at Awatovi and Kawaika-a, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 37.  Reprinted courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. View page

Figure 25d, Lower Border Decorations on Kilts Worn by Human Figures in the Jeddito Mural Paintings, from Watson Smith, Kiva Mural Decorations at Awatovi and Kawaika-a, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 37.  Reprinted courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. View Page

Figure 25g, Lower Border Decorations on Kilts Worn by Human Figures in the Jeddito Mural Paintings, from Watson Smith, Kiva Mural Decorations at Awatovi and Kawaika-a, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 37.  Reprinted courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. View Page

Figure 25l, Lower Border Decorations on Kilts Worn by Human Figures in the Jeddito Mural Paintings, from Watson Smith, Kiva Mural Decorations at Awatovi and Kawaika-a, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 37.  Reprinted courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University.  View Page

Plate I, Awatovi, Room 788, Composite of Parts of Left and Right Wall Design 1, from Watson Smith, Kiva Mural Decorations at Awatovi and Kawaika-a, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 37.  Reprinted courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University.  View Page 

Figure 25b, Lower Border Decorations on Kilts Worn by Human Figures in the Jeddito Mural Paintings, from Watson Smith, Kiva Mural Decorations at Awatovi and Kawaika-a, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 37.  Reprinted courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University.  View Page 1 and Page 2

Figure 25h, Lower Border Decorations on Kilts Worn by Human Figures in the Jeddito Mural Paintings, from Watson Smith, Kiva Mural Decorations at Awatovi and Kawaika-a, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 37.  Reprinted courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University.  View Page

Figure 25o, Lower Border Decorations on Kilts Worn by Human Figures in the Jeddito Mural Paintings, from Watson Smith, Kiva Mural Decorations at Awatovi and Kawaika-a, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 37.  Reprinted courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University.  View Page

Figure 25p, Lower Border Decorations on Kilts Worn by Human Figures in the Jeddito Mural Paintings, from Watson Smith, Kiva Mural Decorations at Awatovi and Kawaika-a, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 37.  Reprinted courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University.  View Page

Figure 19ee.  Selection of Border Motives from Jeddito Pottery Contemporary with the Mural Paintings, from Watson Smith, Kiva Mural Decorations at Awatovi and Kawaika-a, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 37.  Reprinted courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University.  View Page

Figure 19p.  Selection of Border Motives from Jeddito Pottery Contemporary with the Mural Paintings, from Watson Smith, Kiva Mural Decorations at Awatovi and Kawaika-a, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 37.  Reprinted courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University.  View Page 1 and Page 2

Figure 19y.  Selection of Border Motives from Jeddito Pottery Contemporary with the Mural Paintings, from Watson Smith, Kiva Mural Decorations at Awatovi and Kawaika-a, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 37.  Reprinted courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University.  View Page

Figure 24b, Representative Decoration of Shirts, Kilts, and Animal Skins Worn by Human Figures in the Jeddito Mural Paintings, from Watson Smith, Kiva Mural Decorations at Awatovi and Kawaika-a, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 37.  Reprinted courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University.  View Page

Hopi man weaving a sash, ca. 1898 CHS-4574.  Courtesy of University of Southern California, on behalf of the USC Specialized Libraries and Archival Collections.  View Page

Detail, supplemental weft-float pattern, Camp Verde, drawing.  Courtesy of the American Philosophical Society.  View Page

Supplemental weft-float pattern, Camp Verde, drawing.  Courtesy of the American Philosophical Society. View Page

Running stitch.  Courtesy of the American Philosophical Society.  View Page

Twined stitch.  Courtesy of the American Philosophical Society.  View Page

Detail, twined stitch.  Courtesy of the American Philosophical Society.  View Page

Weft-float pattern weave and twined stitch.  Courtesy of the American Philosophical Society. View Page

Weft-float pattern weave.  Courtesy of the American Philosophical Society.  View Page

Weft-float irregular weave.  Courtesy of the American Philosophical Society. View Page  

Running stitch with twined stitch.  Courtesy of the American Philosophical Society.  View Page

Twined stitch, meander pattern.  Courtesy of the American Philosophical Society.  View Page

Enlargement of twined stitch, meander pattern.  Courtesy of the American Philosophical Society.  View Page

Running stitch simulating diamond twill.  Courtesy of the American Philosophical Society.  View Page

Loom drawing.  Courtesy of the American Philosophical Society.  View Page

Upright loom drawing.  Courtesy of the American Philosophical Society. View Page  

Backstrap loom drawing.  Courtesy of the American Philosophical Society.  View Page

Darning examples.  Courtesy of the American Philosophical Society. View Page  


Design Section Photographs:

Hopi man spinning cotton . Courtesy Palace of the Governors (MNM/DCA), 21540. View page.

1922 Indian Fair. Courtesy Palace of the Governors (MNM/DCA), 23318.
View page.

1952 Indian Market. Courtesy Palace of the Governors (MNM/DCA), 103536.
View page.

Figure 25b, Lower Border Decorations on Kilts Worn by Human Figures in the Jeddito Mural Paintings, from Watson Smith, Kiva Mural Decorations at Awatovi and Kawaika-a, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 37.  Reprinted courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University.  View page.


Culture Section Photographs:

Two Hopi girls. Courtesy of the Autry National Center/Southwest Museum, Los Angeles. This image is in the title bar of all of the pages in the culture section. View page.

Basket dance at San Juan Pueblo, 1974. Courtesy of Roger Sweet, photographer. View page.

Pueblo dancer. Courtesy of Roger Sweet, photographer. View page.

Male Pueblo deer dancer. Courtesy of Roger Sweet, photographer. View page.

Female Pueblo dancer. Courtesy of Roger Sweet, photographer. View page.

 

How-to Section Photographs:

Overcasting diagram.  Courtesy of the American Philosophical Society. View page. 

Overcasting two threads diagram.  Courtesy of the American Philosophical Society.  View page. 

Buttonhole diagram.  Courtesy of the American Philosophical Society. View page. 

Hemming/overcast diagram.  Courtesy of the American Philosophical Society. View page. 

Rolled overcast diagram.  Courtesy of the American Philosophical Society. View page. 

Rolled hemmed diagram.  Courtesy of the American Philosophical Society. View page. 

Twine and overcast diagrams.  Courtesy of the American Philosophical Society. View page. 

Running stitch darn diagrams.  Courtesy of the American Philosophical Society. View page.

Twine stitch darn diagram.  Courtesy of the American Philosophical Society.  View page.

Close-packed darning diagram.  Courtesy of the American Philosophical Society.  View page.

Mending diagrams.  Courtesy of the American Philosophical Society. View page. 

Patch to torn cloth diagram.  Courtesy of the American Philosophical Society.  View page.

Patch with overcast stitch diagram.  Courtesy of the American Philosophical Society.  View page.

Patch, double thread diagram.  Courtesy of the American Philosophical Society. View page.

Patch, edges-sewn-under diagram.  Courtesy of the American Philosophical Society.  View page.


 
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