Featured in this lot is this Navajo banded Chinle hand woven rug circa 1940's. The rug features a wonderfully and professionally crafted hand woven wool construction with a heathered cream field that features bands of black and red and features geometric patterns adorning the ends of the rug in colors of heathered cream, heathered grey, light brown, and back. This regional Navajo Rug style is named for the town of Chinle at the mouth of Canyon de Chelly. The Chinle style was developed by Mary Cabot Wheelwright and Cozy McSparron, a trader at Chinle. They sought to revive weaving using classic period designs with vegetal dyes. The Chinle characteristics are horizontal bands containing Chevrons, Chinle Stars, Squash Blossoms and Diamonds in muted colors of gold, green, tan, ivory and pink. The condition of this rug is fair to good with wear to the outside edge of the rug denoting age to the rug; the rug also has some staining in the center of the rug but otherwise in fair to good overall condition. The measurements of this rug is 59" x 30 1/2".