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The oldest surviving wool Navajo weaving comes from 1805 fund on vitims of an attach in Conyon del Muerto. It is thought they were weaving in wool by the mid 1600s. Sheep arrive in the late 1500s. The period of Navajo weaving from 1650 to 1865 is called the Classic period. Before that the people of the southwest wove in cotton, apocynum (Indian hemp), yucca leaf fiber, fur, and feather cord. It is unknown when the Navajo started weaving. It is thought they learned from the Pueblo people. Cotton cloth was a major trade good in the pre 1492 time period. By 1700 the Navajo weaving was much in demand by the Spanish. Textiles do not survive as well as pottery or other artifacts.

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