PULLMAN, Wash. -- The ancient inhabitants of the American Southwest used around 11,500 feathers to make a turkey feather blanket, according to a new paper in the Journal of Archaeological Science: ...

Indigenous Pueblo populations in the American Southwest—ancestors of today's Hopi, Zuni, and Rio Grande Pueblo tribes—typically wove blankets, cloaks, and funeral wrappings out of animal hides, furs, ...

Early Puebloans wove turkey feathers into yucca fiber to make the blanket. Washington State University A blanket made by early 13th-century Indigenous peoples in what is now the southwestern United ...