Posts by Moab Museum Staff

“The People’s Tapestry: Weaving Tradition in Navajo Culture” is now on display at the Moab Museum, featuring a variety of styles of Navajo textiles, including the Tree of Life. In this column throughout the summer, the Museum team will feature a variety of weaving styles and their associated backgrounds and stories.   This exhibition is a…

“The People’s Tapestry: Weaving Tradition in Navajo Culture” is now on display at the Moab Museum, featuring a variety of styles of Navajo textiles, including the Germantown Blanket. In this column throughout the summer, the Museum team will feature a variety of weaving styles and their associated backgrounds and stories.   This exhibition is a celebration…

Teec Nos Pos, “Circle” or “Ring of the Cottonwoods,” named after an important location to The People, rose to prominence in 1905. This weaving style draws upon Persian rugs with intricate and busy patterns, and bright colors such as greens, blues, oranges, and reds. Often these textiles are woven with commercial yarns and were brought…

“The People’s Tapestry: Weaving Tradition in Navajo Culture” is now on display at the Moab Museum, featuring a variety of styles of Navajo textiles, including the Chief Blanket. In this column throughout the summer, the Museum team will feature a variety of weaving styles and their associated backgrounds and stories.   This exhibition is a celebration…

The Ganado Red style of weaving is likely the best known of all Navajo rugs, inspired by Juan Lorenzo Hubbell (founder of the Hubbell Trading Post in 1878 and National Historic Site in Ganado, Arizona). Hubbell was one of the most well-known and respected traders among the Navajo people of his time. Hubbell disliked chemical…

The traditional Storm design which appears on many Navajo rugs originated near Tuba City and Kayenta, Arizona between 1903-1911 and is highly symbolic, though representative details about its origin are unclear due to variations in familial, regional, and personal interpretations. The Storm pattern is associated with the seasonal rainstorms that bring about success during the…

“The People’s Tapestry: Weaving Tradition in Navajo Culture” is now on display at the Moab Museum, featuring a variety of styles of Navajo textiles, including the Yeibechai. In this column throughout the summer, the Museum team will feature a variety of weaving styles and their associated backgrounds and stories.   This exhibition is a celebration of…

If you’re driving south of town on Highway 191, you’ll have the opportunity to spot a very small arch on the left side of the road near mile marker 98. This tiny arch, which looks like a hole cutter mark through the rock, is called “Lopez Arch.”  Insignificant in stature—especially in comparison to the larger,…

In 2020, with a generous grant from the Utah State Historic Advisory Board, the Moab Museum began digitizing the Fran and Terby Barnes Photo Collection. The goals of the digitization process have been to share historic images with the public and to use images to enhance current and future exhibits. The museum, and the Barnes…

We celebrate the month of May as Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, and the long history of native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders in the state of Utah. Utah currently ranks fifth in the United States for Pacific Islander population with roughly 50,000 Pacific Islanders calling this state home. Pacific Islanders,…