Browse Items (93 total)

Dates: 1920-1940
Size: 198 x 126 cm; 7 warps(comma) 30 wefts
Description: After a decline in the Navajo rug market during the Great Depression(comma) a revival period(comma) focused in northeastern Arizona(comma) brought back stylized classic…

Dates: 1920-1940
Size: 200 x 118 cm; 6 warps(comma) 16 wefts
Description: This rug is likely an example of the Chinle Revival style(comma) a regional variation developed beginning in the 1920's that promoted a return to traditional patterns and…

Dates: 1900-1910
Size: 188 x 131.5 cm; 6 warps(comma) 16 wefts
Description: This rug is made of natural and aniline dyed wools to create shades of red(comma) brown(comma) grey(comma) and tan. This pattern(comma) often called “whirling logs(comma)”…

Dates: 1960-1969
Size: 137 x 99 cm; 10 warps(comma) 36 wefts
Description: Although there a few examples of pictorial images in Navajo weaving as early as the 1840's(comma) pictorial rugs only became prominent in the 1890's. This example was woven…

Dates: 1960-1970
Size: 381 x 275 cm; 7 warps(comma) 44 wefts
Description: After a decline in the Navajo rug market during the Great Depression(comma) a revival period(comma) focused in northeastern Arizona(comma) brought back stylized classic…

Dates: 1960-1969
Size: 273 x 173 cm; 10 warps(comma) 44 wefts
Description: Woven by Sally Begay of natural(comma) carded(comma) and aniline dyed handspun wool to create complex patterns using shades of black(comma) white(comma) brown(comma)…

Dates: 1960-1969
Size: 127 x 76 cm; 9 warps(comma) 28 wefts
Description: After a decline in the Navajo rug market during the Great Depression(comma) a revival period brought back stylized classic designs without borders made with vegetable dyed…

Dates: 1950-1960
Size: 61 x 54.5 cm; 7 warps(comma) 28 wefts
Description: This is a small pictorial rug with one centralized word motif spelling cat sup(comma) flanked by two numeral motifs: z02t9 and z0219. The shades of white(comma) black(comma)…

Dates: 1939-1945
Size: 190 x 153.5 cm; 12 warps(comma) 64 wefts
Description: Two Grey Hills is a regional style associated with the Toadlena and Two Grey Hills Trading Post established in 1914 by George Bloomfield and Ed Davis. The style was…

Dates: 1951
Size: 141 x 75 cm; 10 warps(comma) 35 wefts
Description: After a decline in the Navajo rug market during the Great Depression(comma) a revival period(comma) focused in northeastern Arizona(comma) brought back stylized classic designs…