Navajo
Some last several fours some nine days.
Traditional woven wedding basket
Hogan-Traditional Navajo home. Made of wood and
covered in mud and the doorway is opened to the
east that they could welcome the Sun.
The Dines went to the southwest with their own
weaving traditions
Family
Children liked to run footraces, play archery games
and ride horses..
Navajo mother carried a young child in a
cradleboard on her back.
Navajo mens were hunters, warriors and political
leaders.
Navajo womens were farmers, they tended
livestock, cooked and did most of the child care.
Clothing and looks
Men wore Breechcloths.
Women wore skirts made of woven yucca fiber.
Shirts were not necessary in Navajo culture
Navajos did not traditinally wear feather warbonnets
Women and men wore both moccasins on their feet
Both wore their hair gathered into a figure-eight