Handcrafted Navajo rugs support Maxwell museum mission
November 17, 2023
Every Navajo rug is a unique piece that starts with raising the sheep and goats, which are then shorn and the wool carded, spun, dyed, and finally woven, all by hand, into a rug using traditional, contemporary, and historic themes.
Rugs are not just pieces of home décor but rather works of textile art highly prized by collectors that can fetch huge sums when sold.
The University of New Mexico’s Maxwell Museum of Anthropology will once again hold its annual Navajo rug auction fund-raiser.
The rug auction is the result of a long-standing collaboration between the Maxwell Museum and R.B. Burnham & Company of Arizona. The Burnhams have been trading with Diné (Navajo) and Pueblo artists for five generations.
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