Group 7 illustrates a Navaho Indian family of the Pueblo province. They belong to the Athapascan family, whose home is in northwestern Canada and central Alaska. They are among the most interesting tribes of the United States since, under Spanish direction, they laid aside their wild hunting habits, becoming herdsmen of' sheep and other domestic is animals and learning to weave and to work in metals. Their kinsmen, the Apache, on the other hand, fled from the conquerors and remained little affected by civilization down to the present time. The group includes three figures. The man is at work with modern implements of iron, shaping the silver ornaments so skillfully wrought by the workmen of his tribe. Two women are engaged in the must notable industry of this people, the spinning of yarn froth native wool and the weaving of blankets.
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