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."
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"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." |