Annie Bonnie

Born in 1932
Clans: born to Edgewater; born for Bitterwater
Resides in the Wide Ruins region of the Navajo reservation
(Wide Ruins, Arizona)

Weaving has surrounded Mrs. Bonny all of her life, but it wasn't until she was about 17 years old that she began weaving in earnest. Like most Navajo women, she learned to weave on a self-taught basis, while being guided by her talented and much-published mother, Blanche Hale. Mrs. Bonny weaves the classic Navajo Wide Ruins regional design. She still uses natural handspun wool and handmade vegetal dyes, and is very conscious of the use of color and design in her art. This together with her fine quality of weaving makes for classic, timeless Navajo textiles. Mrs. Bonnie has taught her son, Eddie Bonny to weave, and her cousin Betty Roan, and Betty's daughter Jennie Thomas are also well known weavers.