Reproduction of sandpainting. Big Bear Painting (Sascoh). Pale yellow ground with four bears (blue, white, black, gold) surrounding a large white rectangle in center. Four section circle in rectangle.
Donor:
Robert Paine
Collection place:
Southwestern United States
Culture or time period:
Navajo
Maker or artist:
Jeff King
Collector:
Harold Gregg
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Sand paintings (mode of painting) and Sand paintings (visual works)
Accession date:
February 25, 1981
Department:
Drawings and paintings
Dimensions:
width 48 centimeters and height 63 centimeters
Title:
untitled (Title Subject)
Comment:
Southwest, Navajo. The original painting is one of a series of four paintings of Sun's House Guardians used for protection for a man about to go to war for the first time.