Navajo Weavings for Sale

Please call the museum for more information or to purchase. Decorative wooden textile hanger included with purchase.

• Style: Dress Pattern Revival
• Size: 28.5" x 23"
• Weaver: Zonnie Gilmore
• Weaver's Address: Chinle, AZ
• No.: CP1619
• Price: $350

Notes: The design of this weaving is based on historic women's dress patterns dating back to the Classic Period of Navajo Weaving in the mid 19th century. Women's dresses were (and still are) woven in two basically identical halves and stitched together on the sides and shoulders, leaving "holes" for the arms. Once standard wear for Navajo women, woven dresses are now used for ceremonial and other special occasions. This revival weaving is smaller than a standard dress half, and the proportions are more square than a standard dress half. This weaving was made from commercially produced yarns. For more information, refer to dress patterns in your reference books about weavings. Zonnie Gilmore is also known to weave sandpainting textiles.

• Style: Single Saddle Blanket or Throw
• Size: 23" x 28"
• Weaver: Elsie Prettyboy Begay
• Weaver's Address: Rock Point, AZ
• No.: CCTP4020085A
• Price: $165

Notes: This small saddle blanket may have been intended as a saddle throw. The difference is that saddle blankets are meant for use under the saddle, and throws are used on top of the saddle. Throws are usually smaller and more decorative because they're more visible on top of the saddle (remember that historically, Navajo saddles were quite spartan - not like modern western saddles). This and another similar weaving by the same weaver were purchased from Cow Canyon Trading Post in Bluff, Utah.