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Navajo Rug

History Detectives investigates the mystery behind an unusual Navajo rug. We meet with a Navajo medicine man and a traditional Navajo weaver. We travel to Crownpoint, New Mexico, long considered the center of Navajo weaving to discover if a weaver violated a taboo to create this rug. Finally we meet a textile historian to find out who may have been behind this controversial design.
Clip Season 7 Episode 4 Length 18:56 Premiere: 07/12/09

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Season 7, Episode 9
S7 E9 Length 54:44 Premiere Date 08/24/09

Season 7, Episode 8
S7 E8 Length 54:44 Premiere Date 08/16/09

Season 7, Episode 6
S7 E6 Length 54:44 Premiere Date 07/26/09

Season 7, Episode 5
S7 E5 Length 54:44 Premiere Date 07/19/09

Season 7, Episode 4
S7 E4 Length 54:44 Premiere Date 07/12/09

Season 7, Episode 3
S7 E3 Length 54:54 Premiere Date 07/05/09

Season 7, Episode 2
S7 E2 Length 54:54 Premiere Date 06/28/09

Season 7, Episode 1
S7 E1 Length 54:51 Premiere Date 06/21/09

Civil War Bridge
Clip Length 16:55 Premiere Date 09/06/09

Scottsboro Boys Stamp
Clip Length 17:48 Premiere Date 09/06/09

Web Extra: Civil War Bridge
Clip Length 16:06 Premiere Date 08/31/09

John Adams Book
Clip Length 16:43 Premiere Date 07/12/09

Lubin Photos
Clip Length 16:07 Premiere Date 07/12/09

Sideshow Babies
Clip Length 16:49 Premiere Date 07/12/09

Navajo Rug
Clip Length 18:56 Premiere Date 07/12/09

Provenance
Clip Length 02:13 Premiere Date 05/31/03

Trash or Treasure
Clip Length 01:55 Premiere Date 05/31/03

House Dating
Clip Length 02:06 Premiere Date 05/31/03

Real or Fake
Clip Length 02:19 Premiere Date 05/31/03

Preservation
Clip Length 01:39 Premiere Date 05/31/03

Behind the Scenes - Flintlock Rifle
Clip Length 02:49 Premiere Date 04/27/03

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Hindenburg Artifact/John Adams Book/Birthplace of Hip Hop - S7 E7

Premiered On: 08/10/2009

Encore presentations: An instrument that may have been recovered from the Hindenburg, a book that may have been a gift from John Adams to his son, and a home in the Bronx that may have been the birthplace of hip hop.

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Mussolini Dagger/Liberia Letter/N.E.A.R. Device - S7 E8

Premiered On: 08/17/2009

A dagger that may have belonged to dictator Benito Mussolini, letters from a man who may have been part of the post-slavery exodus to Liberia, and a device that could have had something to do with nuclear attack preparedness.

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WPA Mural Studies/George Washington Miniature/Japanese Balloon Bomb - S7 E9

Premiered On: 08/24/2009

Mural studies that may have been commissioned by the WPA in the 1930s or 40s, a miniature painting that may depict George Washington, and a balloon scrap that may be a missing piece of a secret weapon.

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Stalag 17 Portrait/Seadrome/Black Tom Shell - S7 E10

Premiered On: 08/31/2009

A portrait created in a German prisoner of war camp; the Seadrome, a floating airport anchored to the ocean floor where trans-Atlantic passenger flights could refuel; and an intact artillery shell that may have been part of an attack on the U.S. in WWI.

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