Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Loom-child-blanket
- Interior shows a Native American (Navajo) girl sitting on a blanket, under a brush shelter porch, near a loom. Near the loom in use is another unused loom. A metal pail sits near a woven blanket, outside of the brush porch. A dark blanket,...
- Indians of North America--Arts & crafts--New Mexico--1900-1910.; Navajo Indians--Women--New Mexico--1900-1910.; Looms--New Mexico--1900-1910.; Weaving--New Mexico--1900-1910.
- [September, 1908]
- Navajo Weaver
- A Native American (Navajo) woman sits on a woven blanket near a loom. The loom stands near a pile of brush and rocks. Either a hide or cloth is stretched behind the loom, from post to post.
- Indians of North America--1900-1910.; Navajo Indians--Arts & crafts--1900-1910.; Navajo textile fabrics--1900-1910.; Navajo women weavers--1900-1910.; Looms--1900-1910.; Weaving--1900-1910.
- [between 1901 and 1908]
- McKinley School class weaving project
- Photograph of four students from McKinley Elementary School in Denver, Colorado during a Native American class project. Three girls, Violet Turner, Dorothy Wings and Alice Jean McKinies are seen at a vertical weaving loom. Two of the girls are...
- Indian baskets.; Indians of North America.; Indians of North America--Arts & crafts.; McKinley School (Denver, Colo.); Platt Park (Denver, Colo. : Neighborhood); Schools--Colorado--Denver.; Denver Public Schools--Archives.; Public...
- circa 1925
- Potawatomi loom
- Limp straw reeds hang from a wooden loom for making mats on the Native American (Potawatomi, Prairie Band) reservation near Mayetta, Kansas. A straw mat is near the loom.
- Prairie Band of Potawatomi Indians--Products--1930-1940.; Indians of North America--Kansas--Mayetta--1930-1940.; Mat industry--Kansas--Mayetta--1930-1940.; Potawatomi Indians--Kansas--Mayetta--1930-1940.; Mayetta (Kan.)--1930-1940.; Potawatomi...
- [between 1930 and 1940]
- Potawatomi loom
- Close-up view of a Native American (Potawatomi, Prairie Band) loom for making mats on the reservation near Mayetta, Kansas. Limp straw reeds hang from the wooden frame loom. A straw mat is nearby.
- Prairie Band of Potawatomi Indians--Products--1930-1940.; Indians of North America--Kansas--Mayetta--1930-1940.; Mat industry--Kansas--Mayetta--1930-1940.; Potawatomi Indians--Kansas--Mayetta--1930-1940.; Mayetta (Kan.)--1930-1940.; Potawatomi...
- [between 1930 and 1940]
- Loom of steel
- Interior view of Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, Pueblo, Colorado, a steel and iron manufacturing plant; shows male employee operating machinery which produces steel mesh (fencing) from steel wire, steel loom type of equipment.
- Pueblo (Colo.)--1950-1970.; Interiors.; Steel industry--Colorado--Pueblo--1950-1970.; Colorado Fuel and Iron Company.
- [between 1950 and 1970?]
- Head band
- Shows a loom woven head band made by Native American Sioux, Nancy Then Elk of Rosebud, South Dakota. The head band features decorative geometric designs made of loom woven blue, red, and white beadwork and blue silk ribbon.
- Dakota Indians--Arts & crafts--1920-1940.; Dakota Indians--Clothing & dress--1920-1940.; Headbands--1920-1940.; Indians of North America--Arts & craft--1920-1940.; Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--1920-1940.
- [between 1920 and 1940]
- Interior of ancient snake kiva, weaver making blanket Moki Indians, Walpi Pueblo
- Interior view of a kiva, possibly the snake kiva, at Walpi Pueblo, First Mesa, Arizona; two unidentified Native American (Hopi) men sit near a loom; a wooden ladder leans against a large opening in the ceiling; a clay bowl is next to the ladder;...
- Hopi Indians--Arizona--Walpi--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--Arts & crafts--Arizona--Walpi--1890-1900.; Hopi Indian Reservation (Ariz.)--1890-1900.; Walpi (Ariz.)--1890-1900.; Interiors--Arizona--Walpi--1890-1900.;...
- 1899
- Woman weaving near Butler's Trading Post
- Interior view of a Native American (Navajo) woman and girl who sit on fringed blankets at a loom, and weave near Butler's Trading Post, possibly near Shiprock, New Mexico. The woman and girl are shaded by a dark cloth tied to wooden building...
- Indians of North America--Arts & crafts--New Mexico--1900-1910.; Navajo Indians--Women--New Mexico--1900-1910.; Navajo Indian Reservation--1900-1910.; Looms--New Mexico--1900-1910.; Weaving--New Mexico--1900-1910.
- September, 1908
- Woman weaving
- View of a Native American (Navajo) woman and girl sitting on fringed blankets at a loom while the woman weaves near Butler's Trading Post, possibly near Shiprock Agency, New Mexico. The woman and girl are shaded by a dark cloth tied to wooden...
- Indians of North America--Arts & crafts--New Mexico--1900-1910.; Navajo Indians--Women--New Mexico--1900-1910.; Navajo Indian Reservation--1900-1910.; Looms--New Mexico--1900-1910.; Weaving--New Mexico--1900-1910.
- 1908 September 22, 23, 24
- Navaho weaving right out in the Painted Desert
- Native American (Navajo) woman and girls sit on blankets near a loom in the Painted Desert, Arizona. The wood loom hangs from a horizontal pole supported by two vertical poles.
- Indians of North America--Women--Arizona--1910-1920.; Navajo Indians--Arts & crafts--Arizona--1910-1920.; Navajo women weavers--Arizona--1910-1920.; Painted Desert (Ariz.)--1910-1920.; Looms--Arizona--1910-1920.; Weaving--Arizona--1910-1920.
- [1908?]
- Potawatomi weaver
- A Native American (Potawatomi, Prairie Band) woman sits at a loom and finger weaves on a reservation near Mayetta, Kansas. The loom consists of textile fibers stretched between two sticks.
- Prairie Band of Potawatomi Indians--People--1930-1940.; Indians of North America--Kansas--Mayetta--1930-1940.; Potawatomi Indians--Kansas--Mayetta--1930-1940.; Mayetta (Kan.)--1930-1940.; Potawatomi Indian Reservation (Kan.)--1930-1940.;...
- [between 1930 and 1940]
- Navajo weaver
- A Native American (Navajo) woman poses near a loom. She is wrapped in a blanket.
- Indians of North America--1880-1910.; Navajo Indians--1880-1910.; Navajo women weavers--1880-1910.; Weaving--1880-1910.; Women--1880-1910.
- [between 1880 and 1910]
- Aboriginal life among the Navajo Indians Cańon de Chelle, New Mexico [i. e. Arizona]
- A Native American (Navajo) man and woman sit near a loom and an earthen hogan near Canyon de Chelly, Arizona. A bundle of corn cobs hangs from a nearby tree.
- Indians of North America--Arizona--1870-1880.; Navajo Indians--Arizona--1870-1880.; Navajo women weavers--Arizona--1870-1880.; Chelly, Canyon de (Ariz.)--1870-1880.; Looms--Arizona--1870-1880.; Weaving--Arizona--1870-1880.
- 1873
- Navajos
- A Native American (Navajo) woman and girl sit near a loom, probably in Arizona or New Mexico. The loom is near a tepee. An automobile is parked in the distance.
- Indians of North America--1910-1930.; Navajo Indians--1910-1930.; Navajo women weavers--1910-1930.; Girls--1910-1930.; Weaving--1910-1930.
- [between 1910 and 1930]
- Weaver at work in stone kiva primitive loom, Moki Indians
- Interior view of a kiva at Walpi Pueblo, First Mesa, Arizona; two unidentified Native American (Hopi) men sit in the kiva; one man sits on a wooden crate at a wooden loom and weaves a dark blanket or rug while another looks on; a hat lies on an...
- Hopi Indians--Arizona--Walpi--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--Arts & crafts--Arizona--Walpi--1890-1900.; Hopi Indian Reservation (Ariz.)--1890-1900.; Walpi (Ariz.)--1890-1900.; Interiors--Arizona--Walpi--1890-1900.;...
- 1899
- Indian manufacture, Pueblo Indian blanket loom [sic], weavers, Territorial Fair
- A Native American man stands by a Territorial Fair arts and crafts exhibit with labeled items including manos and metates, weaving loom with Navajo blankets, coiled rope, and bead work, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Sign reads: "The Navajoe Indians of...
- Indians of North America--New Mexico--Albuquerque--1880-1890.; Navajo Indians--Arts & crafts--New Mexico--Albuquerque--1880-1890.; Pueblo Indians--Arts & crafts--New Mexico--Albuquerque--1880-1890.; Albuquerque (N.M.)--1880-1890.; Fairs--New...
- October 1881
- Indian manufacture, Navajo blanket loom
- Probably Ben Wittick poses near a Native American (Navajo) earthen hogan and loom. Various household items that include a coffee pot and an ax are on the ground.
- Indians of North America--1880-1890.; Navajo Indians--1880-1890.; Looms--1880-1890.
- [between 1885 and 1890]
- Potawatomi mat weaving
- View of a Native American (Potawatomi, Prairie Band) loom and straw reeds on a reservation near Mayetta, Kansas.
- Prairie Band of Potawatomi Indians--1930-1940.; Indians of North America--Arts & crafts--Kansas--Mayetta--1930-1940.; Mat industry--Kansas--Mayetta--1930-1940.; Potawatomi Indians--Arts & crafts--Kansas--Mayetta--1930-1940.; Mayetta...
- [between 1930 and 1940?]
- W.S.H.S. Annual: 1918
- West Denver High School yearbook for 1918.
- West High School (Denver, Colo.)--Students--Periodicals.; Denver Public Schools--Students--Yearbooks.; School yearbooks--Colorado--Denver.; High schools--Colorado--Denver--Periodicals.
- 1918
- María Salomé Córdova spinning wool
- Hispanic American María Salomé Córdova sits in a chair and spins yarn in her yard in Hoehne (Las Animas County), Colorado. She holds a wood spindle in one hand and the wool in the other. The spindle rests in a wood bowl in her lap. The...
- Hispanic Americans--1930-1940.; Mexican Americans--1930-1940.; Las Animas County (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Weavers.; Women.; Córdova, María Salomé, 1867---Pictorial works.; Hispanic Americans--Colorado--Las Animas County--Pictorial works.; Mexican...
- [between 1930 and 1935?]
- Navajo woman weaving blanket
- A Navajo woman poses at a loom with a partially finished blanket probably on the Navajo Indian Reservation. The weaver sits on a sheep skin, she wears a calico blouse and a long skirt. Sheepskin is draped over a line nearby.
- Indians of North America--Women--Navajo Indian Reservation--1890-1910.; Navajo Indians--Women--Navajo Indian Reservation--1890-1910.; Navajo Indian Reservation--1890-1910.; Looms--Navajo Indian Reservation--1890-1910.; Weaving--Navajo Indian...
- [between 1890 and 1910?]
- Watch fob
- Shows a Native American Sioux watch fob made or purchased in Lower Brule, South Dakota. The fob features loom woven red, blue, and white beadwork.
- Dakota Indians--Arts & crafts--1940-1950.; Indians of North America--Arts & crafts--1940-1950.; Watch fobs--1940-1950.
- [between 1940 and 1950]
- Watch fob
- Shows a Native American Sioux watch fob made or purchased in Rosebud, South Dakota. The fob features loom woven multicolored and white beadwork.
- Dakota Indians--Arts & crafts--1930-1950.; Indians of North America--Arts & crafts--1930-1950.; Watch fobs--1930-1950.
- [between 1930 and 1950]
- Watch fob
- Shows a Native American Sioux watch fob made or purchased in Rosebud, South Dakota. The fob features loom woven red, green, blue and white beadwork and buckskin.
- Dakota Indians--Arts & crafts--1930-1950.; Indians of North America--Arts & crafts--1930-1950.; Watch fobs--1930-1950.
- [between 1930 and 1950]
- Watch fob
- Shows a Native American Sioux watch fob made or purchased in Pine Ridge, South Dakota. The fob features loom woven red, blue, green and white faceted beadwork and buckskin fringe.
- Dakota Indians--Arts & crafts--1940-1950.; Indians of North America--Arts & crafts--1940-1950.; Watch fobs--1940-1950.
- [between 1940 and 1950]
- Watch fob
- Shows a Native American Sioux watch fob made or purchased in Rosebud, South Dakota. The fob features loom woven blue, yellow and white beadwork and tab of buckskin.
- Dakota Indians--Arts & crafts--1930-1950.; Indians of North America--Arts & crafts--1930-1950.; Watch fobs--1930-1950.
- [between 1930 and 1950]
- Belt
- Shows a loom woven belt with muti-colored beads and geometric designs. The belt was made by Native American Sioux, Lucy Knife, in Pine Ridge, South Dakota.
- Dakota Indians--Arts & crafts--1900-1930.; Dakota Indians--Clothing & dress--1900-1930.; Indians of North America--Arts & crafts--1900-1930.; Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--1900-1930.; Belts (Clothing)--1900-1930.
- [between 1900 and 1930]
- Belt
- Shows a belt (Native American Sioux) made or purchased in Rosebud, South Dakota. The belt is constructed of loom woven multicolor beadwork and muslin.
- Indians of North America--Arts & crafts--1900-1930.; Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--1900-1930.; Belts (Clothing)--1900-1930.
- [between 1900 and 1930]
- Watch fob
- Shows a Native American Sioux watch fob made by Lucy Knife of Pine Ridge, South Dakota. The fob features loom woven multicolor beadwork and tanned commercial doeskin.
- Dakota Indians--Arts & crafts--1940-1950.; Indians of North America--Arts & crafts--1940-1950.; Watch fobs--1940-1950.
- [between 1940 and 1950]
- Watch fob
- Shows a Native American Sioux watch fob made by Lucy Knife of Pine Ridge, South Dakota. The fob features loom woven multicolor and black beadwork and tanned commercial doeskin.
- Dakota Indians--Arts & crafts--1940-1950.; Indians of North America--Arts & crafts--1940-1950.; Watch fobs--1940-1950.
- [between 1940 and 1950]
- Headdress
- Native American (Sioux) headdress with eagle feathers; red wool; red, purple and blue down; multicolor, loom woven beadwork; fur.
- Dakota Indians--Clothing & dress--1900-1930.; Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--1900-1930.; Headdress--1900-1930.
- [between 1900 and 1930]
- Bag
- Shows a Native American (Apache) bag with commercial leather, multicolor beadwork and tin jingler. The bag may have been loom woven.
- Apache Indians--Arts & crafts--1880-1890.; Indians of North America--Arts & crafts--1880-1890.; Bags (costume accessories)--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890]
- Belt or Headband
- Shows a Native American (Great Lakes; Sioux? Menominee?) loom woven bead headband or belt with fringe on both ends. The beads are red, blue, green and white. The beadwork is in images of stylized leaves.
- Headbands--1900-1910.; Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--1900-1910.; Belts (Clothing)--1900-1910.
- 1900
- Headdress
- Shows a Native American (Sioux) headdress. It is made from eagle feathers, red wool; red, blue and purple down; loom woven orange, green, red, blue, black and white Italian? beads; transparent red faceted beads, a round painted disc, fur, buckskin.
- Dakota Indians--Arts & crafts--1880-1890.; Indians of North America--Arts & crafts--1880-1890.; Headdress--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890]
- Woman weaving
- A Native American (Navajo) woman weaves at a loom while another woman spins wool, probably in New Mexico. On the ground is a large painted pot next to an earth hogan.
- Indians of North America--1900-1910.; Navajo Indians--1900-1910.; Navajo textile fabrics--1900-1910.; Women--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- Family group seated by hogan, man on horseback
- A Native American (Navajo) family (a man, women, and boys and girls) pose outdoors near an earthen hogan and a loom in either Arizona or New Mexico. The man is on horseback and holds a rifle. He wears a metal bead bandolier. His wife wears bead...
- Indians of North America--1900-1910.; Navajo Indians--1900-1910.; Hogans--1900-1910.; Families--1900-1910.; Horseback riding--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- Family group, Navajo ?
- A Native American (Navajo) family (a man, women, and boys and girls) pose outdoors near an earthen hogan and a loom in either Arizona or New Mexico. The man is on horseback and holds a rifle. He wears a metal bead bandolier. His wife wears bead...
- Indians of North America--1900-1910.; Navajo Indians--1900-1910.; Hogans--1900-1910.; Families--1900-1910.; Horseback riding--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- Tribes Navajo weaver
- A Native American (Navajo) woman weaves at a loom. Another woman and a horse are nearby.
- Indians of North America--1890-1910.; Navajo Indians--1890-1910.; Navajo weavers--1890-1910.; Women--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910?]
- Navajo family
- Portrait of a Native American Navajo family; women and children sit by pottery and a loom; a man is on a horse. Costume includes squash blossom necklaces with naja pendants.
- Indians of North America--1900-1910.; Navajo Indians--1900-1910.; Families--1900-1910.; Horseback riding--1900-1910.; Looms--1900-1910.; Women & children--1900-1910.
- [between 1901 and 1906?]
- Hopi Indian blanket weaver, Ariz.
- A Native American (Hopi) man weaves a blanket on an upright loom at Oraibi (Navajo County), Arizona.
- Hopi Indians--Arts & crafts--Arizona--Oraibi--1900-1910.; Indians of North America--Arts & crafts--Arizona--Oraibi--1900-1910.; Pueblo Indians--Arts & crafts--Arizona--Oraibi--1900-1910.; Oraibi (Ariz.)--1900-1910.;...
- [between 1900 and 1905?]
- Weaving prayer rug in deserted kiva or cave in the rock Moki Indians, Walpi Pueblo
- Interior view of a kiva, possibly the snake kiva, at Walpi Pueblo, First Mesa, Arizona; two unidentified Native American (Hopi) men sit in the kiva; one man sits on a wooden crate at a wooden loom and weaves a dark blanket or rug while another...
- Hopi Indians--Arizona--Walpi--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--Arts & crafts--Arizona--Walpi--1890-1900.; Hopi Indian Reservation (Ariz.)--1890-1900.; Walpi (Ariz.)--1890-1900.; Interiors--Arizona--Walpi--1890-1900.;...
- 1899
- We'wha weaving belt
- We'wha, a Native American (Zuni), sits and weaves a belt on a backstrap loom, Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico. We'wha is a berdache, a man who prefers women's work and adopts female dress; he is dressed as a woman and wears a woven manta, moccasins, and...
- Berdaches--New Mexico--Zuni--1880-1890.; Indians of North America--New Mexico--Zuni--1880-1890.; Pueblo Indians--New Mexico--Zuni--1880-1890.; Zuni Indians--Arts & crafts--New Mexico--Zuni--1880-1890.; Zuni (N.M.)--1880-1890.; Cross dressing--New...
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- The blanket weaver
- Reproduction of a lithograph; Native American (Navajo) blanket weaver works at a loom.
- Indians of North America--1890-1930.; Navajo Indians--Arts & crafts--1890-1930.; Looms--1890-1930.; Weaving--1890-1930.
- [between 1895 and 1925?]
- Woman weaving near Butler's Trading Post
- Native American (Navajo) woman and girl sit and weave at a loom at Butlers Trading Post, probably near Shiprock, New Mexico. A cloth tied between the building and the porch shade the woman and girl who sit on a fringed blanket. The girl points to...
- Butlers Trading Post (Navajo Indian Reservation)--1900-1910.; Indians of North America--Arts & crafts--New Mexico--1900-1910.; Navajo Indians--Women--New Mexico--1900-1910.; Navajo women weavers--New Mexico--1900-1910.; Navajo Indian...
- [1908?]
- Navaho weaver
- Native American (Navajo) woman and girl sit and weave at Butler's Trading post, near Shiprock, New Mexico. A cloth tied between the building and the porch shade them as they sit on a fringed blanket at the loom.
- Butlers Trading Post (Navajo Indian Reservation)--1900-1910.; Indians of North America--Women--New Mexico--1900-1910.; Navajo Indians--Arts & crafts--New Mexico--1900-1910.; Navajo women weavers--New Mexico--1900-1910.; Weaving--New...
- 1908
- Navaho weaving out in Painted Desert.
- Native American (Navajo) woman sits on a blanket near a loom in the Painted Desert, Arizona. Three white men look on. The woman is shaded by a large piece of cloth hung over wood poles.
- Indians of North America--Arizona--1900-1910.; Navajo Indians--Women--Arizona--1900-1910.; Navajo women weavers--Arizona--1900-1910.; Painted Desert (Ariz.); Weaving--Arizona--1900-1910.
- [1908?]
- Moki blanket weaver, Oraibi
- Interior view of a pueblo room shows a Native American woman (Hopi), with an upright loom, fabric, wool, and buckets. Shows a saddle, vigas, and latillas.
- Hopi Indians--Women--Arizona--Oraibi--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--Arizona--Oraibi--1890-1900.; Pueblo Indians--Arts & crafts--Arizona--Oraibi--1890-1900.; Hopi Indian Reservation (Ariz.)--1890-1900.; Oraibi (Ariz.)--1890-1900.;...
- 1898
- A Moqui weaver at work
- A Native American (Hopi) man sits on the ground and weaves on a loom strung on an adobe wall, Walpi, First Mesa, Arizona.
- Hopi Indians--Arts & crafts--Arizona--Walpi--1870-1880.; Indians of North America--Arizona--Walpi--1870-1880.; Pueblo Indians--Arizona--Walpi--1870-1880.; Hopi Indian Reservation (Ariz.)--1870-1880.; Walpi (Ariz.)--1870-1880.;...
- [1879]
- Blanket weaving-a Hopi Indian at work, Wolpi, Arizona
- Interior view of an adobe house shows a Native American Hopi Pueblo man weaving a blanket at a loom with heddles separating the wool threads, Walpi, First Mesa, Arizona.
- Hopi Indians--Arts & crafts--Arizona--Walpi--1900-1910.; Indians of North America--Arizona--Walpi--1900-1910.; Pueblo Indians--Arizona--Walpi--1900-1910.; Hopi Indian Reservation (Ariz.)--1900-1910.; Walpi (Ariz.)--1900-1910.;...
- [between 1900 and 1910]