Ason Yellowhair’s large pictorial rug (400 cm x 295 cm; 13.3” x 9.83”) represents a tour de force accomplishment in Arizona’s indigenous art world. Mrs. Yellowhair, a Diné (Navajo) artist born in 1930, wove the huge tapestry in the early 1950s for the Harvey House in Gallup, NM. Later it fell into the hands of Gallup dealer Tobe Turpin, and after several changes of ownership was purchased in 1990 by John and Dorothy Huff of Green Valley, AZ, who donated it to the Arizona State Museum (ASM) in 1999. To weave the large rugs for which she is justly famous, Ason Yellowhair sometimes had to perch on a chair atop her kitchen table to reach the top of her vertical loom. In addition to depicting wild birds from her garden, she once said that the rug’s floral designs were based on Wrigley’s spearmint gum wrapper graphics; they also resemble cotton plants grown in southern Arizona fields. Ason Yellowhair’s home is located in the central part of the Navajo Nation, the largest and most populous of the twenty-two federally recognized tribal reservations in the state. Diné weavers are recognized throughout the world and Arizona State Museum honored Mrs. Yellowhair as one of the state’s most stellar artists with its Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002.