Back in the 1960s, before we opened our first gallery, my Dad, Jackson Sr., had his office and Navajo rug showroom in front of the Pepsi-Cola bottling plant in Durango. When he started buying and selling weavings, most of the weavings he had were obtained from trading posts where he traded soft drinks for rugs.

Without question, Bernyce Largo is one of the nicest people anyone could ever know. She is quiet and soft-spoken with a warm smile. She lives in Crownpoint, NM, and works with the school district there.

In the late 1800s and early 1900s, it was not unusual for Navajo people to be referred to by descriptive names, primarily because English-speaking newcomers to the reservation had not yet mastered the pronunciation of the complex Diné language.

Many of our regular readers will remember Mae Morgan. She is a remarkable woman from near Crown Point on the Navajo Reservation. She began weaving at the age of eight and learned from watching her mother.

We consider Navajo weaving one of America’s most important and wonderful art forms, and one of our favorite weavers is Geanita John.

Those who have known the Gallery or me for many years know that we were lucky enough to be the first people to market the weavings by the Begay and Barber families that have come to be recognized as the Burnham style. I want to emphasize that all we did was appreciate their different work and do our best to share it with the Indian art world. These ladies did it all.