TOBE TURPEN'S TRADING POST
Perry Null purchased Tobe Turpen's in the fall of 2002. Please visit our new website at
Tobe Turpen's Trading Post is located in Gallup, New Mexico, the center of trade for Southwestern and Native American crafts.
The territorial-style trading post, pictured above, has over 11,000 square feet. The store offers one of the largest and finest displays of Indian crafts to be seen in the area.
We offer one-of-a-kind items such as Navajo, Hopi and Zuni jewelry, handmade rugs, and kachinas. We obtain our arts, crafts and artifacts directly from the Native American people by either an outright purchase, in-trade for supplies, or by items which have been pawned by the original owner that have become "dead pawn".
In addition to jewelry, rugs and kachinas, we also carry an extensive inventory of used western saddles, including pleasure saddles, roping saddles, and bronc saddles, along with a wide selection of Pendleton blankets and ceremonial baskets which have been taken in trade or become part of our "dead pawn" inventory.
We have a variety of rings, bracelets, necklaces and beads all done in sterling silver, with either turquoise, coral or other precious or semi-precious stones. Our used saddle inventory has over 50 saddles that range in quality and price, from the very best to good working ranch saddles.
The Turpen family has been in the trading business since 1917. We have put together a brief history of the Trading Post and the Turpen family. Please have a look.
