This painting is from a body of work produced in the early 1970s that responded to images in Elizabeth C. Hegemann's book entitled Navajo Trading Days. Moses created the works by first laying raw, unstretched canvas outdoors to weather. He then nailed the canvas to the wall and drew on it by snapping a pigment-saturated "chalk line." Moses then applied a natural-colored resin to the canvas, which he allowed to soak in and extend from the edges. While the works in the series allude to Navajo blanket designs, they effectively merge painting, drawing, and weaving.

Source: News, May June 2000.