LOUISE NEZ AND FLORENCE RIGGS

Louise Nez (left) and her daughter, Florence Riggs (b. 1962). In The People Speak: Navajo Folk Art, the Rosenaks describe the scene: "In early October of 1992, we visited Florence Riggs at the home of her mother, Louise Nez, in Farmington. Mother and daughter were working in the cramped-for-space living room on a type of loom that we had never seen before -- a double loom. ‘My brother [Bill Nez] designed and built this loom for us,' Florence Riggs says. "It gives me the chance to visit with mother, and both of us can weave our own rugs a the same time.'"