Stella Arizana is from the Curly family of weavers from Toadlena, near the Two Gray Hills trading post in New Mexico. She has carried on the Curly family standard of excellence and has won numerious prizes for her artistry. This unusually fine example is typical of the Two Gray Hills style in that the central design configuration is a very elaborate, large, concentric geometric of a Persian style. All other spaces in the rug are filled with complex highlights. As is typical of Two Gray Hills pieces, the entire rug is woven in yarn tones of black, white, gray, and brown, with a complex multi-stripe border. An "escape line" is seen in one corner as a black weft line that bisects the border. Such deviations are most commonly seen in Two Gray Hills rugs. Folklore from this trading post region describes a Navajo spiritual requirement that there be a pathway that will prevent evil from being trapped inside the border lines. The symmetry in the design and the intricate detail are the hallmarks of the superior skill of Stella Arizana. The technical features are also of high quality with more than one hundred weft units per square inch. All yarns are "Z" twist, hand-spun sheep wool in both the warp and the weft.