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Navajo Wide Ruins Trading Post Rug by Nellie Joe

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:25.00 USD Estimated At:400.00 - 800.00 USD
Navajo Wide Ruins Trading Post Rug by Nellie Joe
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This is a wonderful Navajo Native American Indian wool rug with an excellent Wide Ruins pattern from weaver Nellie Joe. The Wide Ruins trading post was founded by Sally and William Lippincott in the 1940’s in Wide Ruins, Arizona. Wide Ruin rugs are characterized by the high quality 100% wool with all-natural vegetable dyes having a very fine, tightly spun weave of soft colors, with this rug being a very nice example with all the true attributes. The rug shows a linear Wide Ruins pattern which is similar to that of a banded Chinle or banded Crystal. The vegetable dyed colors include green, red, yellow, tan/white, a golden yellow and grey. The rug has the original Wide Ruins trading post which reads, “AUTHENTIC HAND WOVEN NAVAJO RUG WEAVER: Nellie Joe AREA: Wide Ruins, AZ SIZE: 26”X40” RUG NO. 1731”. Provenance: From a 90-year collection out of Central Arizona in the Coconino National Forest. Measures overall 46.5 inches long by 34.5 inches wide (the measurements include the four tassels which are ach 4 inches in length).