Navajo Rug

As I was reading the March 1924 newspapers, I found this article about a Navajo Rug. A few words in the article were changed to be less offensive.

What was interesting was that the rug contained 7, 384,000 stitches was on exhibition at Gallup, New Mexico. It has been brought in from the Navajo reservation from the Ganado country by Don Lorenzo Hubbell near whose trading store some of the finest weaves were produced by the deft hands of female Native Americans.

The rug was 10 feet 10 inches by 11 feet 11 inches in size and was called a beautiful creation of the weaver’s art. The wool to make this rug was shorn from the native sheep at Ganado, and was shipped to Boston, where it was spun especially for the work of the weaver whose name was Kine-Am-Ne. She was one of the best weavers of the entire tribe. The weave was the old-fashioned kind, “using native dyes making the rug a work of art in every particular”.

The color was blue with figures in white and red worked into the designs to represent the wind, rain and sunshine with the whirling log design in the center.

Kine-Am-Ne worked 14 months to produce this wonderful rug. Another rug made by her sold to D. C. Jackling, a well-known mining man of the 1920s, recently, for $500, valuation in 2024 at $9,073.86.

Furthur research did not find a picture of either rug. I wonder where either rug is today!