Old Lady Long Salt's Summer Hogan (from the series The Enduring Navaho)
Artist
Laura Gilpin
(American, 1891 - 1979)
Date1945
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 15 7/16 × 19 5/16 in. (39.2 × 49.1 cm)
Support: 15 13/16 × 19 11/16 in. (40.2 × 50 cm)
Mat: 22 × 26 in. (55.9 × 66 cm)
Support: 15 13/16 × 19 11/16 in. (40.2 × 50 cm)
Mat: 22 × 26 in. (55.9 × 66 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of Jill Warren, 2015
Object number2015.11.1
DescriptionClearing under low trees with three groups of Navajo women at work and a cat in the foreground. Kitchen pots and pans and a box of salt at center of composition.eMuseum Notes
Gilpin
made this image on a trip to the Navajo Mountain area in southeastern Utah. She
came across the summer Hogan of Old Lady Long Salt, whose
great-granddaughter-in-law told the artist that the elder had been at the
Bosque Redondo reservation in southern New Mexico and at age eight had walked
back to the Navajo lands. Gilpin estimated the woman’s age at 94 years and
reported five generations of women working together at the Hogan. Gilpin was
keenly interested in Navajo customs and noted that because this was a remote
area it had retained “much old Navaho life.”
On View
Not on view
Beaumont Newhall
1940 printed 1983
