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Crystal
J B Moore Cyrstal Navajo Rug$12,750 84" x55" C. 1900 T90836-068-104
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J.B. Moore Storm Pattern Rug$2,000 63" x37" 1910sJ91160-129-101
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JB Moore Crystal Storm with Whirling Logs$9,500 86" x56" 1920sPublished in Western Art Collector, February and March 2008, page 81. T90230-108-102
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Navajo Crystal$2,875 71" x45" c.1920T90753-125-002
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Navajo Crystal
Navajo Crystal
Navajo Crystal$1,250 75" x50" 1905T91819-022-009
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Navajo Crystal
Navajo Crystal$1,250 60" x43" c. 1920T90273-113-002
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Navajo Crystal
Navajo Crystal
Navajo Crystal
Navajo Crystal
Navajo Crystal$4,850 88" x49" Circa 1900Published Western Art Collector, February 2009, Page 173. T2722
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Navajo Crystal
Navajo Crystal$385 56" x27" Circa 1930 T2658
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Navajo Crystal
Navajo Crystal
Navajo Crystal $3,500 77.5" x50" c.1915T92311-059-135
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Navajo Crystal
Navajo Crystal Pictorial Rug$485 48.5" x33" circa 1930T2946
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Navajo Crystal Quilt Pattern Horse Pictorial$6,850 73" x44" c.1900T2918
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Navajo Crystal rug$725 67" x39" circa 1910T92413-039-001
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Navajo Crystal Rug$3,000 86" x62" circa 1930T1859
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Navajo Crystal Rug
Navajo Crystal Rug$5,500 100" x52" circa 1900T2359
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Navajo Crystal Rug
Navajo Crystal Rug$7,000 98" x68" circa 1930T90106-038-041
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Navajo Crystal Rug
Navajo Crystal Rug$950 55.5" x39" circa 1930T92424-119-001
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Navajo Crystal rug with Monster Slayer Motifs$7,500 95" x54" circa 1910T90230-108-101
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Navajo Crystal Runner$2,500 73" x38" circa 1900T91924-059-011
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Navajo Crystal Runner
Navajo Crystal Runner$1,000 77" x39" circa 1910T90402-109-005
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Navajo Crystal Runner
Navajo Crystal Storm Pattern$2,500 58" x31" 1900T2521
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Navajo Crystal Storm Pattern Pictorial Runner with Steers, Hands, Corn, and Manta$7,500 125" x62" circa 1930T2921
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Navajo Crystal Storm Pattern Rug$175 24.25" x16" circa 1950T90244A-099-003
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Navajo Crystal Storm Pattern Rug$1,150 66.5" x35" circa 1940J.B. Moore, who owned the trading post at Crystal, New Mexico from 1897-1911, was another visionary trader who exercised enormous influence over early Navajo rug design. Perhaps his most important innovation was to introduce weavers in his region to Oriental rug patterns. Rather than copying wholesale, the Navajo filtered the new patterns through their own cultural sensibilities and personal design preferences. In the process, they drew out specific concepts and motifs, re-synthesizing them into distinctly Navajo designs.
Motifs probably derived from oriental rugs include repeated hook shapes (often called latch hooks), the waterbug shaped like an X with a bar through the middle and, in a small number of weavings, rosettes. An even more lasting and fundamental influence was the concept of a large central motif in one, two or three parts, that covers almost all of the ground between the borders. Even the concept of the border itself, usually in two or three layers with at least one in a geometric pattern, is probably traceable to oriental carpet design. Though introduced in the region around Crystal, these motifs and ideas quickly spread to other areas of the Reservation and are found on many rugs woven throughout the past century.
Moores influence on Navajo rugs was not only widespread but of long duration. Designs his weavers developed before 1911 were still being made, virtually unchanged, as late as the 1950s. These oriental-influenced patterns are now known as Early Crystal rugs. Those made at the beginning of the century typically featured aniline red with natural whites, browns and greys, while rugs made from the 1920s on tended to rely even more heavily on a wide range of natural wool colors.
One of the most popular patterns that likely resulted from Moores work at Crystal was the Storm Pattern. This design is generally defined as a central rectangle connected by zig-zag lines to smaller rectangles in each corner. The storm pattern often is said to have symbolic meaning: the zig-zags are lighting, the corner rectangles are the four sacred mountains of the Navajo or the four directions or the four winds, etc. Nevertheless, the great variety of interpretations suggests that meanings were assigned by Anglo traders and collectors, not by the Navajo themselves. The storm patterns precise origin is uncertain one story suggests it was developed by a trader on the western side of the Reservation but the weavers at Crystal developed this concept into one of the most popular and lasting of all Navajo rug patterns. T90203-129-001
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Navajo Crystal Storm Pattern with Whirling Log Symbols$2,800 91" x56" c.1930J B Moore catalog, Plate 28, picture shown. T91876-079-106
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Navajo Crystal Textile$875 60" x39" c.1910T90241A-039-007
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Navajo J. B. Moore Storm Pattern Runner$4,100 97" x44" circa 1920T90333-089-106
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Navajo Storm Pattern$950 50" x33" c.1997T91151-099-005
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