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Re: research inquiry



Your patron might try calling the Navajo Nation
 
Window Rock, AZ  86515
928.871.6647 voice
928.871.6637 fax
 
This book might be of interest if your patron has not yet seen it:
Wide Ruins : Memories from a Navajo
                     Trading Post
                     by Sallie Wagner, Edward T. Hall
"Newlyweds Sallie Wagner and Bill Lippincott came to the Navajo Reservation
in 1938. Before they knew it, they owned a trading post at Wide Ruins,
Arizona. The years they spent there were the best of their lives, and this
lively, honest memoir recalls them in detail. Trading post life combined
business with the kinds of experiences generally associated with
anthropological field work. Like many traders, Sallie Wagner influenced the
weavers whose rugs she purchased. She was one of the traders who
persuaded weavers to use vegetal dyes, leaving a permanent legacy in
Navajo weaving. Tourists discovered Indian reservatIons in the 1930s, and
the Lippincotts were visited often by friends and strangers alike, many
unable to navigate reservation roads."
                                                ***
"Agnes Smith, a Navajo weaver from Wide Ruins in Arizona completed this rug
in February, 1984. It is made from all handspun wool, warp and weft. The
colors are all vegetal dyed. Agnes is very well known for her Wide Ruins rugs.
One of Agnes' rugs was featured in the July, 1974 issue of Arizona Highways
magazine. She has won numerous awards for her weavings, and her work is
included in the collection of the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at the
University of New Mexico in Albuquerque."