When the National Park Service purchased the property for Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site in 1967, the acquisition included most of the historic furnishings in the Hubbell family home and the trading post. Many fifty-year-old Navajo rugs covered the floors of the home and showed some wear from use. Expecting over 10,000 people annually to walk on the rugs as they toured the house, the National Park Service decided to replace the originals with reproductions. Navajo weavers, following traditional techniques on vertical looms, made exact copies of the original rugs, including irregularities in pattern and dyes. Navajo women wove these replicas at Hubbell Trading Post in the early 1970s, as visitors watched. The park's cooperating association, Southwest Parks and Monuments Association, paid the weavers an hourly wage. Twenty-two original rugs are now preserved in storage and visitors see the replicas in the home. Navajo weaver Sadie Curtis wove the reproduction of this rug in 1976. The reproduction appears in the west bedroom of the Hubbell home.