Antique Navajo Dine Teec Nos Pos Rug, Circa 1899 - !915 old navajo rugs The stone looks like basalt

The stone looks like basalt with a very heavy patina and worn smooth by many hands touching it over the centuries

This storage function is best illustrated in the very heavy bracelets and anklets of the Congo River region

doors and furniture were all carved from solid wood

for they were too strong

Age:ca 1900

Antique Navajo Dine Teec Nos Pos Rug, Circa 1899 - !915 old navajo rugs The stone looks like basaltThe Teec Nos Pos rugs grew out of the nearby J. B. Moore Crystal Trading Post at the turn of the 20th Century. This highly complex design pool offers the epitome of both unique stylized geometric patterns along with pictorial feathered arrows and eight pointed stars. There are numerous little refinements with lightning, serpentine lines within interlocking crosses and diamonds bursting within stars. the borders are also an outstanding combination of