File:History of Inventions USNM 32 Navaho Metal Workers.jpg
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English: Plate 32.
Navaho Indians making silver ornaments. — The Navaho Indians of Arizona and New Mexico were taught a rude sort of metal work- ing by the Spanish conquerors, and they have become very adept in the use of their primitive tools and apparatus. It is not known that they mined for silver, all of their products being made from Mexican and American coins. The silver is either cold hammered or melted in open crucibles by the use of charcoal and flux, with blast produced by bellows having two air sacks of leather, as crude as those of the Congo Negroes. Much metal is wasted in the operation. It is brought into final shape by hammering, punching, chasing, and en- graving. The objects made are mainly personal ornaments, such as buttons, ear ornaments, beads, and bracelets. Examples are placed with the figures. |
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| Source | Walter Hough (1922). Synoptic series of objects in the United States National Museum illustrating the history of inventions. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 60 (2404). 1-47, 56 pl. |
| Author | United States National Museum (Smithsonian Institution), Washington D.C. |
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