Blanket weaving - a Hopi Indian at work Wolpei (i.e. Walpi) Arizona – Vintage Photo Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Blanket weaving - a Hopi Indian at work Wolpei (i.e. Walpi) Arizona, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Blanket weaving - a Hopi Indian at work Wolpei (i.e. Walpi) Arizona
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Walpi, one of the ancient Hopi villages on First Mesa in northeastern Arizona, drew many photographers around 1900. In this 1903 stereograph, a Hopi man sits at his loom and works on a blanket, a task traditionally carried out by men in Hopi communities. Hopi weaving in cotton and wool long predates sustained contact with Europeans, and by the early 1900s the craft was changing as commercial yarns and trade blankets reached the mesas. Stereo cards like this one were viewed through a hand viewer to create a sense of depth, bringing scenes of distant places into American homes.
| Created / published | 1903 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Notes | H29833 U.S. Copyright Office. · Greenough Horatio 1805-1852. |
| Subjects | Indians of North America--Arizona--Walpi--Arts and crafts--1900-1910. Hopi Indians--Arts & crafts--1900-1910. Weaving--Arizona--Walpi--1900-1910. Textiles--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,284 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-STV-271683 |
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