Hopi man weaving a sacred blanket Thesiger Collection

Hopi man weaving a sacred blanket Thesiger CollectionView of a Hopi man, sitting on the ground in front of a vertical loom, weaving a sacred blanket. According to James Stevenson's original note for this photograph (prepared circa 1885), '[t]his class of weaving is done exclusively by the men and the work of preparing sacred blankets is always conducted in an estufa. The [Hopi] sacred blanket is quite different from that made by the Navajoes. The body of it is always white with the borders embroidered.'

standing in an ornate doorway of the (fourteenth-century) Attarin Madrasa in Fez

Al Shada Palace is visible in the background

many boats are beached along the shore

with another kasbah in the distance

on Mount Kenya

full length

pictured in front of two Zuni blankets

In the foreground a man and a boy relax in shallow water on the right

Seated group portrait of seven men

the carving is now understood by scholars to represent a supernatural crocodilian

is holding the baby's hand

wearing a garland of sweet-scented herbs in his hair