Reproduction of sandpainting. Big Snake Painting (xi scoh). Pale yellow ground with four snakes (black, blue, white, yellow) on each side of blue rectangle representing the Navajo universe. Pattern of crosses and 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:
height 63 centimeters and width 48 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.