Rug identification?

[tlowery04]

I have two rugs that I am being begged to get rid of. Found them in a house I was paid to clean out along with a host of mid thirties southwestern momentos. Here are pictures, dollar for scale.

 

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[mcb66]

Take some good close up pictures of the back of them. That will help to ID them.

 

[rock]

Ill take the one on the right. Thanks for the choice

 

[tlowery04]

ok, i'll pull them back out of the closet. If they are worth keeping I would like to stow them away and take care of them properly. They've been stored in the front of a 5th wheel camper for the last few years and it was recently lent to a relative so I removed them.

 

[tlowery04]

Both rugs have the same pattern on both sides so I don't know which is the back, however, here are some close up pictures

 

[tlowery04]

And the second

 

[tlowery04]

i would prefer to keep them if they are real, but we've just found out that a basket we have may be authentic also, and im off to find a Pablita Velarde piece that i have stashed somewhere for possible appraisal also. I don't own the basket, or rugs, but they belong to my father who may end up selling them.

 

[rock]

I sent you a PM.

 

[mcb66]

You have got two really nice hand made rugs there. Off hand I can't tell which culture they came from, but there were a ton of these rugs sold to tourists out west in the 30's. They have become very valuable now. There's a bunch of stuff on the web to help with identification. Start with medicinemangallery.com.