Take a Southwest vacation and visit the Crownpoint Navajo Rug Auction, and be nice to your pocketbook!  Decorate your home in style for less.  Stock up on presents everyone will appreciate.  The money you save buying directly from the artists will help pay for your vacation.

Visit the main rug auction and craft sale on the Navajo Reservation.  Leave behind the usual tourist fare and see hundreds of exquisite handmade Navajo rugs.  The Navajo tribe's rugs are world famous, and New Mexico is beautiful!  Before the actual auction, you can hold rugs in your hands and appreciate them up close.  Some sell for $50 or less, and some sell for thousands of dollars.  Even if you don't buy anything, you are in for a treat.  No two rugs are alike!!

Before and during the auction, a truly large number of Native American craftspeople have their wares on sale.  You will be astounded at the jewelry, pottery, beadwork, and other items.  Many pieces of jewelry, for example, are on sale for $5.  You would have to pay two or three times more to purchase the same items elsewhere.

Both the rugs and the crafts are major sources of income for the Navajo tribe. If you purchase any of these, you will be doing yourself and them a favor.

To contact Crownpoint Navajo Rug Auction use the email form on their website at www.crownpointrugauction.com.