Crystal rug, unrecorded Diné artist

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Crystal rug, unrecorded Diné (Navajo) artist
Crystal rug, unrecorded Diné (Navajo) artist
unrecorded Diné (Navajo) artist
Crystal rug
early 1900s
unrecorded Diné (Navajo) artist, artist
Crystal rug, early 1900s
Where object was made: Crystal, New Mexico?, United States
Material/technique: dyeing; wool; weaving
Dimensions:
Object Length/Width (Length x Width): 164 x 97 cm
Object Length/Width (Length x Width): 38 3/16 x 64 9/16 in
Credit line: Gift from the Menninger Foundation
Accession number: 2007.1857
Not on display
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This rug was created in the early 1900s by Native American Diné weavers as a way to earn money. Collectors named this rug design Crystal for the place it was sold: the Crystal Trading Post in New Mexico. The name of the design connects the rug with the place it came from.

If you created a rug design named for the place where you live, what would it look like?