The lot features a circa 1910 Navajo Ganado rug from the Hubbell Trading Post with paperwork (from Hubbell Trading Post). The rug exhibits natural native handspun / hand spun wool with hand-carded natural grey, natural white cream, natural brown and a red with quite a bit of variegation in the red which is likely an early aniline dye, commonly referred to as Ganado Red. The rug shows several serrated / stepped diamond patterns with a cream white background with interesting hand-carded grey outside bands / stripes all framed in a solid natural brown border with banded striped bordered end. Provenance: This rug was purchased at Hubbell Trading Post in Ganado, Arizona for $6,200, noted as being an Early Ganado (circa 1910). The rug is from an ex-Montana collection from a substantial luxury mountain Lodge whose collection was acquired from Hubbell Trading Post, Cowboy Connection, Garland's and others. Hubbell Trading Post was established in 1878 by John Lorenzo Hubbell and is the oldest continuously operating trading post in the Navajo Nation. Only ten years after the Navajo people returned from their forced exile at Bosque Redondo, New Mexico, known as the Long Walk of the Navajo, John Hubbell founded the trading post in 1878. The post originally began as a trading site established by William Leonard in the Ganado Valley around 1874, which Hubbell acquired using squatter’s rights and later formalized through a homestead claim. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1960. The rug exhibits a nice soft natural wool with various lazy lines visible. The outside edges are clean and the weave is quite nice with one hole found on the bottom diamond, some slight soiling at the center area, which looks to be easily cleaned, there are a few coin sized holes, but mostly well kept with soft wool. Some color loss. Measures 64-inches by 50-inches.