The Navajo, who are neighbors of the Pueblos, learned how to weave from
them, but are to-day much better weavers than their teachers. Every one
knows the Navajo blankets, with their bright colors, pretty designs, and
texture so close as to shed water.
Some tribes of British Columbia weave soft capes or cloaks of cedar bark,
and in Alaska the Chilcat Indians weave beautiful blankets of
mountain-sheep wool and mountain-goat hair. These are a mass of odd,
strikingly colored, and crowdedly arranged symbolic devices.
Among some California Indians the women wore dresses made of grass. They
were short skirts or kilts, consisting of a waist-band from which hung a
fringe of grass cords. They had nuts and other objects ornamentally
inserted into the cords. They reached about to the knees.