Navajo "Cornstalk" Pictorial Rug,

The Navajo 'Cornstalk' Pictorial Rug is a category of textile art produced by Navajo weavers, primarily in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, featuring stylized corn plant motifs central to Navajo cosmology and agricultural life. These rugs reflect the Navajo people's deep spiritual connection to corn as a sacred symbol of life, sustenance, and blessing, rendered through bold geometric patterns and natural dye traditions. Highly sought after by collectors, these pictorial weavings represent a distinctive sub-genre of Navajo textile art and regularly appear at major auction houses as significant examples of Native American craft and cultural expression.