This lively account of a pioneering anthropologist's experiences with a Navajo family grew out of the author's desire to learn to weave as a way of participating in Navajo culture rather than observing it from the outside. In 1930, when Gladys Reichard came to stay with the family of Red-Point, a well-known Navajo singer, it was unusual for an anthropologist to live with a family and become intimately connected with women's activities. First published...

This book concerns itself with the origin of the different types of Navajo rugs, with suggestions on how and where to buy, and with their care. New histotical notes were added to facts previously known. The history of the Navajo People has been sketchily depicted and then only as it concerns their weaving. Includes history of weaving, how a rug is made, rug types and areas, how to buy a rug, how to collect rugs, fact and fancy, the future, 20 color...