Unknown Maker, Native North American

The Pima, like the Pueblo Indians, developed a sophisticated weaving technology, producing thousands of undecorated, finely woven white blankets, few of which have survived. They also wove colorful belts like these on a backstrap loom with weft patterning in designs which relate to those used on baskets and which can be traced back to similar patterns used by their prehistoric ancestors, the Hohokam. Hohokam farmers occupied Southern Arizona near the Gila and Salt rivers from about 300 BC to AD 1400, and in turn were influenced by Mesoamerican cultures, which also produced geometric repetitive patterns like those on Pima belts.