Sheep, Coffee, Rugs and Turquoise
The squeaky wooden floor greets your entry into the oldest operating trading post on the Navajo Nation. When your eyes adjust to the dim light in the "bullpen" you find you’ve just entered a mercantile. Hubbell's has been serving Ganado selling groceries, grain, hardware, horse tack, coffee and Native American Art since 1878.
Discover Hubbell Trading Post NHS, where history is made every day.
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Navajo Portraits Web Exhibit
Selected Elbridge Ayer Burbank artwork from the Hubbell Trading Post NHS museum collection. NAVAJO PORTRAITS - Hubbell Trading Post NHS.
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Best of Show
This Katsina Doll carving by Aaron Fredericks won Best of Show at the May, Friends of Hubbell auction! (A Kokopelli or Kuwan)
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Open For Business
The Hubbell family operated the store until 1965. Today, Western National Parks Association continues the trading business started 130 years ago.
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Did You Know?
Artists visiting Hubbell Trading Post in the early 1900s painted illustrations of Navajo rugs for J.L.Hubbell. He displayed the paintings on the wall in his rug room for weavers and visitors to admire. Today Navajo weavers still use these 81 illustrations for inspiration. More...