Home is Where the Hogan Is

Monday, July 7, 2025 2:42 PM

Home is Where the Hogan Is

Pictorial weaving has always been a favorite style of weaving in our family. Our father had a great collection; he and Mark Winter included several pictorials when compiling the Durango Collection, which is now housed at the Center for Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College.

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Isabel and Geanita John Pictorials

Monday, June 2, 2025 1:03 PM

Isabel and Geanita John Pictorials

On December 6, 2004, Navajo pictorial weaver Isabel John and her husband Frank were driving from their home at Many Farms, Arizona, to Farmington, New Mexico, to deliver some paperwork for a new truck they had purchased the day before.

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A Pretty Cool Pictorial Weaving

Wednesday, June 19, 2024 12:13 PM

A Pretty Cool Pictorial Weaving

The wonderful thing about having so many informed readers of our blog is that I usually learn something every time I send one out. Last week’s post on the Trading Post Name Rugs was no exception.

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The Navajo Relationship to Horses

Monday, February 6, 2023 8:09 AM

The Navajo Relationship to Horses

The Navajo and their cousins, the Apache, were known as the most accomplished mounted warriors in the Southwest. It wasn’t always that way.

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