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- Yucca Needle with Cotton Thread
Description: Self-threaded yucca needle with cotton twined into the yucca thread. Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: Navajo National Monument. - Yucca Fiber
Description: Bundle of untwisted yucca fibers. Dimensions: 30 inches long. Collection: On display at the Montezuma Castle National Monument Visitor Center (Catalog No. MOCA 47). - Yucca and Cotton Cloth, Detail
Description: Yucca and cotton fabric made by weaving cotton rag strips and yucca fibers. Yucca baccata warp, double yucca weft, and unevenly spaced cotton rag wefting. Dimensions: Approximately 17 x 10.5 cm. Collection: On display at the Montezuma Castle National Monument Visitor Center (Catalog No. MOCA 164). - Yucca and Cotton Cloth, Detail
Description: Cotton cloth fragment woven with yucca and cotton fibers in a mixed weave (mostly over-1, under-1). Dimensions: L 12.0, 10.2 cm (L 4, W 3 1/4 in). Provenience: Unknown. Collection: WACC, Tonto National Monument (Catalog No. TONT 1525). - Yucca and Cotton Cloth
Description: Yucca and cotton fabric made by weaving cotton rag strips and yucca fibers. Yucca baccata warp, double yucca weft, and unevenly spaced cotton rag wefting. Dimensions: Approximately 17 x 10.5 cm. Collection: On display at the Montezuma Castle National Monument Visitor Center (Catalog No. MOCA 164). - Yucca and Cotton Cloth
Description: Cotton cloth fragment woven with yucca and cotton fibers in a mixed weave (mostly over-1, under-1). Dimensions: L 12.0, 10.2 cm (L 4, W 3 1/4 in). Provenience: Unknown. Collection: WACC, Tonto National Monument (Catalog No. TONT 1525). - Yarn
Description: Well-spun cotton yarn rolled onto a stick; white, but stained dark by guano deposits. Dimensions: Unknown. Provenience: Upper Ruin. Collection: WACC, Tonto National Monument (Catalog No. TONT 433). - Woven Sash
Cultural Period: Navajo Description: Woven Navajo sash in red, green, and white. Dimensions: 7 feet x 5 inches, excluding fringe. Collection: On display at Navajo National Monument. - Woven Handbag, Detail
Description: A woven handbag made by folding a strip of cloth in half and sewing the edges. The design was made using a technique known as weft floating. Dimensions: 12 x 6 inches. Collection: On display at the Montezuma Castle National Monument Visitor Center (Catalog No. MOCA 123). - Woven Handbag
Description: A woven handbag made by folding a strip of cloth in half and sewing the edges. The design was made using a technique known as weft floating. Dimensions: 12 x 6 inches. Collection: On display at the Montezuma Castle National Monument Visitor Center (Catalog No. MOCA 123). - Woven Fabric, Design Detail
Description: Finely woven fabric with z-twist warp and I-twist weft. The fabric was dyed blue (now faded) and had a pattern of diagonally placed squares left free of dye except for blue dots in the centers of each. Bird feathers were also incorporated into the weave. Dimensions: 10.5 -7.5 x 12 x .03 cm. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Woven Fabric
Description: Finely woven fabric with z-twist warp and I-twist weft. The fabric was dyed blue (now faded) and had a pattern of diagonally placed squares left free of dye except for blue dots in the centers of each. Bird feathers were also incorporated into the weave. Dimensions: 10.5 -7.5 x 12 x .03 cm. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Woven Cotton Fabric
Description: Woven cotton fabric. Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: Navajo National Monument. - Woven Cotton Belt
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan Description: Woven cotton belt or apron with tassels. Dimensions: 8 1/8 L x 1 1/2 W (inches). Tassels are 1 3/4 inches long. Collection: On display at Navajo National Monument (Catalog No. 221). - Woven Cloth
Description: Over-1, under-1 woven cloth with 7 weft picks per cm; warp threads are white, with brown weft threads. Dimensions: L 10.0, W 5.3 cm. Provenience: Upper Ruin. Collection: WACC, Tonto National Monument (Catalog No. TONT 680).