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Two Grey Hills tapestry
Date:	1981
Artist:	Margaret Yazzie, born 1929
Clan:	Tábaahá, born for Tl’ááshchí’í (Water’s Edge, Red Bottom People)
Size:	29" x 20"
Count:	94 wefts/inch

“My mother’s Aunt Margaret is my model of an independent woman. She picks up my grandma in her truck and they’ll go to town. She likes Chinese food. She’ll call my grandma and say, ‘Let’s go walking.’ They go to Wal-Mart, which is ‘walking,’ and spend the day together. They remind me of geese who go everywhere together.” —Sierra Ornelas

“Aunt Margaret raises the sheep—her brown wool is really prized. People buy wool from her, but she saves the best for me and herself. When I started weaving she wouldn’t give me any because she said, ‘You’re just going to play with it, you’re not going to use it.’ Then, when I started creating a name for myself, I knew I’d made it when she started giving me wool.” —Barbara Ornelas