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Navajo Two Grey Hills Wool Rug 1950's Original Tag

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:25.00 USD Estimated At:500.00 - 1,250.00 USD
Navajo Two Grey Hills Wool Rug 1950's Original Tag
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This is an excellent Navajo Native American Indian wool rug with an excellent Two Grey Hills Toadlena pattern from Crownpoint Trading Post and woven by Susie Shirly. The rug dates to the mid-20th Century and is from the Crownpoint Rug Weavers Association from Crownpoint, New Mexico. The rug has the original early trading post tag which reads, “No. 30CA 3 Crownpoint Rug Weavers Assn. Crownpoint, New Mexico Weaver: Susie Shirly Address: Two Grey Hill.” Crownpoint, New Mexico has been home to a gathering of extraordinary Navajo weavers since the early 1900’s including weavers from the Lorenzo Hubbell Trading Post, Teec Nos Pos Trading Post, Toadlena and Two Grey Hills Trading Post and J.B. Moore Old Crystal Trading Post. In circa 1950-1960’s the Crownpoint Rug Weavers Association founded the Crownpoint Rug Auction which is still in operation today. The rug shows a nice tight weave of 100% wool showing natural colors of black, cream/white, light-medium brown, dark brown, and grey. The rug has immense detail and shows very well-preserved museum quality condition. Provenance: From a 90-year collection out of Central Arizona in the Coconino National Forest. Measures overall 56 inches long by 45 inches wide (the measurements include the four tassels which are ach 4.5 inches in length).