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Navajo sandpainting

American Memory from the Library of Congress

Alhkidokihi - Navaho (The North American Indian; v.01)

CREATOR Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952.

SUMMARY Description by Edward S. Curtis: One of the four elaborate dry-paintings or sand altars employed in the rites of the Mountain Chant, a Navaho medicine ceremony of nine days' duration.

NOTES 1 photogravure : brown ink ; 26 x 43 cm.

Original photogravure produced in Boston by John Andrew & Son, c1907.

Original source: The Apache. The Jicarillas. The Navaho [portfolio] ; plate no. 39

Seattle : E.S. Curtis, 1907.

Since this volume was published in 1907[1], it is in the public domain.

OBJECT TYPE Photomechanical print Image

REPOSITORY Northwestern University. Library., Evanston, Ill.

DIGITAL ID http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.award/iencurt.cp01039

Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian: Photographic Images

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