Barbara Teller Ornelas

Barbara Teller Ornelas (born November 26, 1954)[2] is an American weaver and citizen of the Navajo Nation.

[4] She grew up near Two Grey Hills Trading Post in New Mexico,[5] before later moving to Arizona.

Learning from her mother, grandmothers, and older sister, she is a fifth-generation Navajo weaver.

[4][6] She weaves tapestries with sheep wool from local flocks raised by Navajo families.

Her daughter Sierra Teller Ornelas was commissioned by the Arizona State Museum to make a documentary film, A Loom with a View: Modern Navajo Weavers, which explores the weaving of her family members, including Barbara herself, Barbara's son Michael Teller Ornelas, and Sierra's great aunt Margaret Yazzie.