A Navajo Weaver (1966)

The filmmaker's mother, weaver Alta Kahn, weaves a rug. The film also shows how the weaver's job consists of of raising the sheep, shearing the wool, digging yucca roots for soap with which to wash the wool, carding and spinning, walking, digging and searching for roots with which to make dye, dying the wool, and putting the warp on the loom.

Released Nov. 6, 1966 23 min None+

Genres: Documentary, Short

Keywords: mdblist.imdb-short, imdb.navajo, mdblist.one-actor, imdb.national-film-registry, imdb.through-navajo-eyes-series, imdb.weaving, imdb.independent-short + 3 more, imdb.native-american, imdb.textile, awards.national-film-preservation-board-winner