Navajo Two Grey Hills Rug, c. 1930s, 64" x 40"

Description

Navajo Two Grey Hills Rug, c. 1930s, 60" x 40"
This weaving is in very good condition. There is spotting, some areas with slight moth grazing, and weft wear to the center and the edges. There is a cloth strip sewn onto the edge of one side for hanging purposes.
Acquired from a private collection in Arizona. Includes a copy of an old appraisal stating the value as ,500.
Please reference item T92339A-0120-008.
Two Grey Hills Navajo Indian Rugs are known as weavings in which no colored dyes were used. Instead, weavers carefully combed and spun different natural colors of yarn to yield a beautiful range of creamy whites, tans, browns, and greys. (To get a solid black color, weavers sometimes would over-dye dark brown wool with black dye.) The weavers around Two Grey Hills developed very complex geometric patterns, usually based on a large, hooked, central diamond with multiple geometric borders. They also were known for very finely spun wool of small diameter which they used to make very thin, dense, and tightly woven rugs that are certainly the greatest technical achievements in the history of Navajo rug making. Many of the women who now weave for nearby Toadlena Trading Post carry on this tradition of quality. The most finely woven rugs often are called tapestry rugs. Medicine Man Gallery specializes in old Navajo Indian rugs from Two Grey Hills, including rugs by master weavers such as Daisy Tauglechee.
Medicine Man Gallery has been in the Antique Native American art business since 1992.
We have one of the largest inventories of Antique Native American art for sale in the country, offering Navajo Rugs and Blankets, American Pueblo Pottery, Indian Baskets, Hopi Kachinas, Old Pawn Jewelry, Contemporary Native American Jewelry, and Native American Beadwork, as well as Ethnographic Art, Western Americana, Art of the West and Native American Art.
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