
Here the Gallup promoters have combined a warning about the difference between "knowledgeable" dealers and trinket-sellers, with a series of descriptions of what "authenticity" constitutes, when it applies to Navajo rugs. This is an important issue, for nowadays many "authentic" Navajo rugs are made in Malasia, Indonesia, Korea and other "outsourced" locales. Across the page, below an ad for the most reputable and oldest of Gallup trading and pawn-shop posts, Richardson's (which combines sales of everything from antiquities to cheap mass-produced glue-and-mineral-dust-"turquoise" jewelry) is an ad for an "American" (as opposed to "Native American" RV Park, where one can park one's rented or (if a senior citizen) owned recreational vehicle in a place sanitized of Indians, rude, drunken, entitled, or thieving (note the promise of "Random Security Patrol" which will ensure "American Courtesy and Hospitality" as against immigrant or Native American establishments which, it is implied, can't keep undesireables off the property).