Painting

Museum number:
17-385
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21170000385
Accession number:
Acc.1107 and Acc.1365
Description:
Reproduction of Navajo sand painting.
Donor:
Mrs. Laura Adams Armer and Norman E.A. Hinds
Collection place:
Arizona
Culture or time period:
Navajo
Maker or artist:
Laura Adams Armer
Collector:
Laura Adams Armer
Collection date:
1960
Place depicted:
Arizona and Ganado, Apache County, Arizona
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Paintings (visual works)
Production date:
ca. 1930
Accession date:
1953 and 1960
Department:
Drawings and paintings
Dimensions:
height 55.6 centimeters and width 44.2 centimeters
Title:
Eagle Chant (Title Subject)
Comment:
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.
Loans:
S1968-1969 #11: University of California, Berkeley (July 30, 1968–October 21, 1969)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Painting, accession number 17-385, described as Reproduction of Navajo sand painting.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Painting, accession number 17-385, described as Reproduction of Navajo sand painting.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Painting, accession number 17-385, described as Reproduction of Navajo sand painting.

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