A SUPERB NAVAJO PICTORIAL RUG

CRYSTAL REGION

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A SUPERB NAVAJO PICTORIAL RUG
CRYSTAL REGION
Very finely woven in light brown, black, cream and red against a grey ground, decorated with two central linked stepped diamonds accented with cross and hook motifs, flanked on each side with diamond patterns, and geometric foliate designs, four Model A cars, driver in lower left corner smoking a cigar, geometric band border
90 x 63in. (228.6 x 160cm.)

拍品專文

"Three methods of transportation profoundly influenced and changed the Navajo way of life: the horse introduced to the Southwest in the sixteenth century, the railroad in the nineteenth century, and cars and trucks in the twentieth century. Horses and cars gave the Indians personal mobility...It made the Southwest accessible to travelers and tourists and thus enormously expanded the market for one of their most important products...weavings (Campbell and Kopp, 1991, p. 55)."