Anita Johnson Ganado Rug Necklaces Cartoonist Ricardo Caté describes Indian

Cartoonist Ricardo Caté describes Indian humor as the result of “us living in a dominant culture

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Anita Johnson Ganado Rug Necklaces Cartoonist Ricardo Caté describes IndianThe popularity of the Ganado Navajo rug is due in part to Juan Lorenzo Hubbell, an important early trader who owned several trading posts on the Navajo reservation. Hubbell admired early Navajo blankets from the Classic Navajo period (1700 1865) and encouraged weavers in the area to model their rugs after these designs, using red, black, white, and natural grey wools. By the 1930s, weavers featured a large motif in the rugs center combined with a