Marilyn Greaves’ Fair Oaks home is filled with Navajo items that she has collected or made. One of her larger pieces is this Two Grey Hills-inspired rug in her living room. This weekend, she will ...
Shepherd's Cross in Claremore is handing down the art of Navajo weaving. As students learn how to weave a Navajo rug, they also learn the history behind it. "We're losing a lot of these older ...
Fifth-generation weavers Ornelas and Pete (Spider Woman’s Children) offer experienced weavers inspiring instruction in the art of creating Navajo rugs. They first relate the craft’s origin story: the ...
NMAI copy 39088009750597 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Gift from the Collection of Louise M. Moody, Donated by Helen M. Dodson. NMAI copy 39088018589473 from the library of H. Paul ...
NAVAJO artists in the early 20th century knew how to let their weavings speak through symbols — zigzagging lines, diamonds, stars and arrows tell ancient stories of nature, fertility and religion as ...
More than 550 distinct Native American Indian tribes call the United States home. Many are struggling to keep their unique history and traditions from being swamped by the tidal wave of American pop ...
On Saturday dozens of Flagstaff residents and people from all over northern Arizona gathered in Branigar Hall at the Museum of Northern Arizona to peruse a selection of more than 300 hand-woven Navajo ...