Color print

Museum number:
17-404
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21170000404
Accession number:
Acc.1453
Description:
Reproduction of Navajo sand painting.
Donor:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection place:
Ganado, Apache County, Arizona
Culture or time period:
Navajo
Maker or artist:
Laura Adams Armer
Collector:
Laura Adams Armer
Collection date:
ca. 1930
Place depicted:
Arizona and Ganado, Apache County, Arizona
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Color prints (prints), Sand paintings (mode of painting), and Sand paintings (visual works)
Function:
4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Production date:
ca. 1930
Accession date:
1961
Department:
Drawings and paintings
Dimensions:
width 29.21 centimeters and height 40.005 centimeters
Title:
Untitled (Title Subject)
Comment:
Unframed. Arizona: Ganado. 17-385 - 17-404 were painted in connection with a five reel motion picture on sand painting, under the direction of Laura Adams Armer for Lorenzo Hubbell. The sand paintings from which these copies were made were done by one or more Navajo priests of the Mountain Chant, ca. 1930.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Color print, accession number 17-404, described as Reproduction of Navajo sand painting.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Color print, accession number 17-404, described as Reproduction of Navajo sand painting.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Color print, accession number 17-404, described as Reproduction of Navajo sand painting.

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