Reproduction of sandpainting

Museum number:
17-712
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
XVIII (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3608
Description:
Reproduction of sandpainting. Big Wind Painting (niyol coh). Pale yellow ground with four figures (blue, black, white, yellow), one on each side of yellow rectangle representing the Navajo universe. Pattern of crosses and circle inside the 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.
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Reproduction of sandpainting, accession number 17-712, described as Reproduction of sandpainting. Big Wind Painting (niyol coh). Pale yellow ground with four figures (blue, black, white, yellow), one on each side of yellow rectangle representing the Navajo universe. Pattern of crosses and circle inside the rectangle.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Reproduction of sandpainting, accession number 17-712, described as Reproduction of sandpainting. Big Wind Painting (niyol coh). Pale yellow ground with four figures (blue, black, white, yellow), one on each side of yellow rectangle representing the Navajo universe. Pattern of crosses and circle inside the rectangle.

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