Reproduction of sandpainting. Twelve Holy People (diyin dinee). Pale yellow ground divided into twelve rectangles; left six are colors, right six are figures. Gold, blue, black and white.
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 given so that each man will have a personal blessing unconnected to war. Considered very holy.