VINTAGE Navajo Wide Ruins / Chinle Large Rug Circa 1930

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VINTAGE Navajo Wide Ruins / Chinle Large Rug Circa 1930:
$2825.00

ThisNavajo Wide Ruins / Chinle Large Rug was made in 1930. The dimensions are 84\" by 73\". If interested when purchasing this rug we can offer to get the hole fixed. This would be an extra charge but we would charge at cost. We acquired this from the Carson family collection. The Carson family has had numerous years of Native American trading both on reservations and surrounding communities. A letter copy is included showing family history.

Starting in the 1940s, Sally and William Lippincott, ownersof the trading post at Wide Ruins, Arizona worked with the weavers in theirarea to develop highly detailed banded patterns rendered in vegetal dyes. MostWide Ruins rugs are characterized by very fine, tightly-spun yarns and a flat,even weave. They feature the full range of new vegetal colors including softgreen, mauve, terra cotta, and pale purple, pink and blue as well as the morecommon yellow, gold, brown, and tan. Black is rare in Wide Ruins weavings. Thedesigns look like finely rendered, small-scale versions of Chinle and Modern Crystalrugs, and often incorporate narrow bands of the wavy line motif.

Beginning in the 1920s, weavers and traders developedseveral new regional styles based on a revival of Transitional Period bandedpatterns and the predominant use of vegetal dyes. The impetus behind this trendcame primarily from Anglo collectors, traders, and government agencies that hada sincere desire to upgrade the quality of Navajo weaving and return totraditional, pre-rug patterns. The resulting rugs were not literal copies of olderpieces, but were creative variations on banded designs using a wide palette ofnewly developed natural dye colors, as well as new, subtly colored chemicaldyes. Mary Cabot Wheelwright, founder of the Wheelwright Museum in Santa Fe,probably started the vegetal revival by providing weavers around Chinle,Arizona with the new dyes and sketches of old weavings. Chinle Revival rugstypically feature bands of repeating geometric motifs alternated with plain orstriped bands of contrasting colors. Common colors for Chinle rugs includeyellow, gold, brown, tan, terra cotta, soft pink and other earth tones, as wellas natural wool colors ranging from white to black. Weavers in the area southof Chinle, around Nazlini, developed a variation on the Chinle type which oftenused stylized plant motifs in place of the repeating geometrics.

Medicine Man Gallery has beenin the Antique Native American Art Business for 23 years. With a largeinventory of Antique Native American art to include Navajo Rugs and Blankets,American Pueblo Pottery, Indian Baskets, Hopi Kachinas, Old Pawn Jewelry, ContemporaryNative American Jewelry, and Native American Beadwork. We have one of thelargest inventories of Antique Native American art for sale in the country. Beforepurchasing please contact us with any questions you may have about the conditionof this item we are happy to send additional images.